[pct-l] Holiday Cheers....

[stewjohns at comcast.net (stewjohns@comcast.net)]

My understanding of this process of precession keeps the angle of the axis at the same 23.5 degrees, but rotates the inclination around an imaginary cone.  It changes the equinoxes over your stated time, but not the seasons.  In other words, right now, the earth is closest to the sun in the winter time in the northern hemisphere, and farthest away in the summer time. As precession continues, those will flip oppisite of what they are now, but the angle will still be 23.5 degrees through the whole process. All this does is make for more extremes in climate on the northern and southern hemisphers.  The equator stays the same. You are correct in your statement that the north pole will no longer point to poloris.  Also just for fun, the earth rotates through all 12 constallations during this precession and we are currently in the constallation of Aquaris.  Prior to this period around the birth of christ, we were in the age of Pices, which christianity has the symble of the two fish swimming in oppisite directions.  This is no coincidance as the early astronamers knew about precession.  Also ancient propachy predicts that our age of aquaries is the last one, and is predicted to end in I think 2013.  Get your hikes going soon.... time is running out. Of course Im just kidding about that last part, but it does make you wonder.

Doc Holiday

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From: "Sharon & Chuck Chelin" <chelin@teleport.com> 

> Good afternoon, 
> 
> If the traditions are based upon the changing of the seasons noticed by 
> ancient peoples, it must have been only a sometimes thing because the earth 
> does not always have seasons. The seasons are caused by the tilt of the 
> earth's axis away from being parallel to its axis of revolution around the 
> sun. Currently this off-angle is at it's maximum of about 22.5 deg. Over a 
> total period of 25,800 years this axis will have moved to zero, then on to 
> 22.5 deg. the other direction, across zero again, and back to where it is 
> now. From where we are now to zero deg. of tilt, either in the past or in 
> the future, is then only one fourth of this cycle, which is 6,450 years, and 
> well within the human period. It also means that 12,900 years ago the 
> northern hemisphere had it shortest day in June just like Australia has now. 
> This phenomenon is called precession. 
> 
> With zero inclination of the earth's axis, the sun will rise in the same 
> place every day of the year, and thus there will be no seasons. One 
> significance of this is a change in the distribution of heat across the 
> planet. With zero inclination and the sun always over the equator, the 
> equatorial areas will become unusually hot, and the polar areas will become 
> unusually cold. It's much like twirling a marshmallow on a stick 
> perpendicular to the fire: The center burns and the ends stay white. 
> People who study these things try to equate the various ice ages with 
> precession. 
> 
> So, the bottom line is, you PCT hikers in the Class of 8,456 will not have 
> to worry about beating the seasons during a thru hike, but it will be really 
> hot in SoCal, and you may have to finish the hike on a fully developed 
> glacial ice cap. Also, don't use old year-2000 celestial navigation data. 
> Polaris will no longer be the pole star because it will be revolving with 
> the others 22.5 deg off north. 
> 
> Steel-Eye 
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From: bmclaughlin at bigplanet.com (Brian McLaughlin)
Date: Sun Dec 18 21:50:57 2005
Subject: [pct-l] Holiday Cheers....
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>> ancient propachy predicts that our age of aquarius is the last one, 
>> and is predicted to end in I think 2013.  Get your hikes going soon.... 
>> time is running out. Of course I'm just kidding about that last part, 
>> but it does make you wonder.

If it happens, it happens. In the spirit of HYOH... LYOL. Whatever
God does is not in my power. I figure I was given this life. It's a
heck of a gift, but now that I have it, it's mine. We all get to go to
hell by our own chosen path, as somebody wise once said.