Christmastronomy

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christmastronomy

Title text: All I'm saying is that it fits the data. What else do you need?

Votey

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Hey, do you know why stores always seem to stock christmas stuff earlier in the year?

Is it because holiday commerce is a sort of soulless hulk that turns its expressionless face ever further from god and ever closer to mammon.

Nah. Nah, thats dumb.

It's because santa orbits the sun at the same distance as earth, only a little quicker.

His orbital period is one hour shorter than ours, causing christmas to occur sliiiightly sooner every year. Hence, christmas junk in stores "earlier each year.

We humans have pegged christmas to december 25, but that just means we

Grow ever more wrong in our estimates for santa's arrival

As time wears on, official christmas and actual christmas will become less and less synchronized, until christmas stuff is in stores from march through august, and not even present during the calendar holiday.

But, eventually, we will reach a special conjunction. A noelar eclipse, if you will.

Intellectualism is dead in this

I will not.

Country.

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Don't you dare blame consumerism

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