{"id":2049,"date":"2020-04-29T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T04:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2020-04-27T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:09:56","slug":"a-to-z-challenge-2020-y-is-for-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"A to Z Challenge 2020: Y is for Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Y is for Year<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Year<\/strong> – the time it takes a planet to go all around the sun.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

On Earth, that would be 365.25\u00a0 Earth days. On Venus (the planet closest to Earth), that\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>would be 224.7 Earth days. On Neptune (the planet in our solar system farthest away from Earth), 60,182 Earth days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Interestingly, your pet dogs or cats also do not follow human years as they age. The adage that for every one year of dog life is an equivalent of 7 years in human life is incorrect. That answer is an average. Dogs and cats age faster when they are young, so the equivalent age for dogs (and cats; similar to small dogs) are more like the following table:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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So the concept of a year is relative; to what you are and where you live.\u00a0 Thinking about how old you are, which number would you prefer to have?\u00a0 A short age number, with an older age feel, which would be the case as a dog\/cat or living on Neptune. Or a large numbered age, but actually feel younger as if you lived on Mercury (88 days to an Earth year) or Venus. I\u2019ve always been partial to Venus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now you never have to worry about lying about your age. If someone asks your age, just decide whether you want to be an Earth old number or an Earth young number. Let them try to calculate it. I\u2019m 113.1 years old on Venus and only 37 years old on Mars. I won\u2019t even go into how old I am in cat\/dog years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Problem solved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So how old are you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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