AP's 343rd book of science--- Calendar Improvement-- make March 1 be New Years Day// astronomy by Archimedes Plutonium This is AP's 343rd published book of science published on Internet, Plutonium-Atom-Universe, PAU newsgroup
Archimedes Plutonium
Calendar Improvement-- make March 1 be New Years Day// astronomy
by Archimedes Plutonium
This is AP's 343rd published book of science published on Internet, Plutonium-Atom-Universe,
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Preface: I am tired of stupid calendars that split a winter in half and so one never knows if you are talking of winter of 2025 or 2024, unless you stop and clarify. The first day of Spring, 1 March should be New Year's Day. The Ancients did it that way, and along comes Religion to hijack commonsense and put New Year's Day in the middle of winter.
Cover Picture: My iphone photograph of old calendars and what a mess they were.
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Table of Contents
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1) The confusion brought by the silly January 1 being New Year's Day.
2) Spring is great, and why not reward it with New Year's Day.
3) Make every month have 30 days, except February.
4) Most simple learning technique such as "why winter is cold and summer is hot".
5) Ancients were smarter in their calendar than modern people.
6) Calendar dictates a Week Holiday for everyone in February.
7) Physics tells us there is no improvement in day, hour, minutes, seconds.
8) Summary.
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1) The confusion brought by the silly January 1 being New Year's Day.
Actually, I am debating myself on whether this book belongs in astronomy or in logic. For time being, I decided astronomy.
The great confusion with having New Year Day in the middle of a season, is that you are open to wide confusion. For example when someone says the winter of 1990 was very cold, do they mean 1989 of the month of december or 1990 of the month of january or do they mean 1990 the month of december? Three ways to screw up.
Archimedes Plutonium Mar 1, 2025, 5:05:44 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
#343 book of science for AP--- AP gift improvement to the Human Calendar// astronomy by Archimedes Plutonium.
Archimedes Plutonium Jan 20, 2025, 5:26:09 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
I have never been able to reconcile the end of the year with the calendar being in the middle of Winter. Today, 20Jan2025 is the coldest day so far this winter. Is it then, still the winter of 2024 or is it the winter of 2025????
The calendar that the West uses, (do not know if Asia uses our calendar is a tattered patchwork of creation. We have December, meaning 10 be the 12th month, and November meaning 9 as the 11th month.
We have some months with 30 days, others with 31 and February with 28 or so.
On Monday, January 20, 2025 at 1:02:23 PM UTC-6 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
Brrrrrr.......
High today is -18 Celsius with low tonight at -26 Celsius.
When I was young and middle age I would say-- so-- so what.
Now that I am old, I hate winter.
And sadly I knew when I was 60 years old in 2010 that I had better prepare myself for the day I needed to live next to a hospital. In walking distance to a hospital and food store. Unfortunately, my love of trees and animals and plants kept me stayed-put. So in the coming years I better be more diligent in working to that end goal. Living by yourself in old age can be hazardous if not in walking distance to hospital and foodstore.
First job of today--- feed the outdoor cats with something warm. I really do not know how they and bunny rabbits and birds live in that winter,,,, truly remarkable is animal bodies to retain heat.
On Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 3:30:19 PM UTC-6 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
I am trying to prepare myself for what is slated to be the coldest day this winter so far-- Monday at -26 Celsius (0 is freezing of water in Celsius and 100 C is boiling point of water).
And I seem to notice a pattern that has lasted for 3 weeks now. Where Saturday, Sunday, Monday are the coldest days of the week only to be warmed up come Wednesday of that week. For 3 weeks in a row now that Saturday, Sunday, Monday were frigid cold only to have Wednesday warm things up.
And now I am 74-75 years old and for the first time in my life am noticing that when I drink a liquid from the refrigerator, my body immediately goes into shivering. Something I never noticed before. So at the age of 74, for the first time can safely say I hate winter. Before I was happy with winter and the solace it gave me. Especially able to write more books as the quiet time of year of winter.
And how swiftly I changed my opinion of winter-- I hate it now.
And how I used to disparage all those in Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska who upon winter would go to Arizona to spend the winter, and I now, am really --- ready to join them.
Funny how you go through life and shift all of a sudden, shift 180 degrees to liking winter and then hating winter.
All the more reason for me to move to a warmer climate in my final decades of life.
I decided, it is time to scrap our old calendar in favor of a Logical Calendar.
A first time in which a Logical Person frames the calendar to be Logical itself.
And I start it off by recognizing Earth has 4 seasons, and it is a pitiful shame to have the first day of a new year in the middle of a season. So this brings much confusion to people when you say Winter of 2025 do you mean 2024 or do you mean 2025.
Then there is the confusion of how many days in a month. I learned the device of reading my knuckles-- a knuckle was 31 days, a valley in between knuckles was 30 days, and when you reach August you go back to the first knuckle. Let us make that easier and logical also, as we change New Year's Day to be 1 March.
2) Spring is great, and why not reward it with New Year's Day.
The season that brings great joy to all in the world is Spring. So, in the AP calendar we make March 1 be New Year's day. We may want to rename March to be that of Spring, although not necessary. We may want to rename June to be Summer, and name September to be Autumn. And rename December to be Winter. Although the names we now have are perfectly fine to keep.
Now we have 365.25 days in the year by astronomy. Now 365.25 divided by 12 months gives us 30.43. And the way we dealt with that in the past is a leap year every 4 years by giving February an extra day.
I propose that every month have 30 days except February (Winter) which periodically will have 35 days, and where those 5 extra days is a 5 day Holiday Vacation for those in Northern Hemisphere and 35 days for February in Southern Hemisphere.
And to account for the leap-year, every 4 years is a 6 day Vacation where February has 36 days.
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Archimedes Plutonium Jan 20, 2025, 5:38:01 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
On second thought--- let us keep the names as is but we start the year with March, not with January.
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
January
February
A name change of some months would confuse Southern with Northern Hemisphere if we said March is named Spring.
Keep the same names.
Start all calendars not with January but with March and March 1st being the New Year day, as well as the vernal equinox month of Spring.
A Logical Calendar does not have a New Year day be in the middle of a season. A logical calendar has New Year day be the first day of a Season.
3) Make every month have 30 days, except February.
Archimedes Plutonium Jan 21, 2025, 1:02:39 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Yes, a bad calendar puts New Year day in the middle of Winter where you do not know if Winter of 2025 is now or whether we still are in winter of 2024. This is screwy.
So what I recommend is that New Year's Day be the first of Spring season. Make New Year's day March 1.
Make every month have 30 days exactly. With the extra 5 days, and 6 days on Leap Year, give those extra days to February as a National Holiday of 5 (or 6 days, in a row). A National Holiday of 5 or 6 days in a row for people to just simply sleep those 5 days having endured that winter. So all months are 30 days and February has 5 or 6 days.
Northern Hemisphere calendar-- and let Southern Hemisphere calendars do what they want.
Second thought--- let us keep the names.
March 30 days
April 30 days
May 30 days
June 30 days
July 30 days
August 30 days
September 30 days
October 30 days
November 30 days
December 30 days
January 30 days
February 35 days except leap year 36
4) Most simple learning technique such as "why winter is cold and summer is hot".
Archimedes Plutonium Jan 22, 2025, 12:46:57 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Now when I was a teacher in Melbourne Australia, a young fresh new teacher I set myself to the task of teaching students the utmost simply way of gaining knowledge and this simplicity of learning would "stick with the student" for the rest of their life.
For example, learning how seasons are caused and why Summer is warm hot while Winter is cold.
It was two lessons all taught in 1 hour.
First we have a heater and our hands. Say the hands are cold in cold weather and now we want to warm them quickly.
If we have our hands parallel directly over the heater like this illustration.
Hand
________
________
Heater
We warm the hands as quickly as possible.
But if we have the hand at an angle like this.
Hand
/
/
___________
Heater
We warm slowly.
Now have each student in class hold up their pencil. Now pretend that the pencil is the Earth's axis. Now tilt the pencil to imitate the Earth's tilt of axis of about 23degrees. Here we do not have to be precise, but just a nice tilt as the teacher shows his tilt of his pencil.
Now, move the pencil in a Circle, where we pretend the Sun is at the center of the circle.
What the teacher has the student learn as the student moves the tilted pencil around in a circle, the student learns that half the time the tilt of the Northern (or Southern) hemisphere is tilted away and half the time as it goes a full circle is tilted towards the Sun making for winter and for summer.
And this pencil revolution also teaches the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox the best way to teach them. For as the pencil tilt goes around in a full circle (astronomy ellipse) that there are two moments when the Earth axis is equal in tilt between North and South hemisphere to allow Sunshine of equal amount to hit North and South Hemispheres.
The very best of teachers, strive for perfection in teaching and that means unforgettable simplicity.
5) Ancients were smarter in their calendar than modern people.
I say that Ancient people were smarter than modern people in that there is evidence they celebrated New Year Day on 1 March instead of 1 January. And that they had December be the 10th month with 2 more months to go in the year -- January and February.
Archimedes Plutonium Jan 28, 2025, 3:41:39 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Calendars of the past were not always as insane and ignorant as calendars of the present. There were rays of hope in the Ancient Babylonians who kicked off New Year on 1 March. While insane West puts New Year smack dab in the middle of a season, too sloppy in mind to make New Year's day the start of the Spring season in Northern Hemisphere, start of Autumn in Southern Hemisphere.
--- quoting Wikipedia---
The ancient Babylonian calendar was lunisolar, and around the year 2000 BC began observing a spring festival and the new year during the month of Nisan, around the time of the March equinox. The early Roman calendar designated 1 March as the first day of the year. The calendar had just 10 months, beginning with March. That the new year once began with the month of March is still reflected in some of the names of the months. September through to December, the ninth through to the twelfth months of the Gregorian calendar, were originally positioned as the seventh through to the tenth months. (Septem is Latin for "seven"; octo, "eight"; novem, "nine"; and decem, "ten") Roman mythology usually credits their second king Numa with the establishment of the two new months of Ianuarius and Februarius. These were first placed at the end of the year, but at some point came to be considered the first two months instead. The January kalend (Latin: Kalendae Ianuariae), the start of the month of January, came to be celebrated as the new year at some point after it became the day for the inaugurating new consuls in 153 BC as a result of the rebellion in Hispania which began the second Celtiberian War. Romans had long dated their years by these consulships, rather than sequentially, and making the kalends of January start the new year aligned this dating. Still, private and religious celebrations around the March new year continued for some time and there is no consensus on the question of the timing for 1 January's new status. Once it became the new year, however, it became a time for family gatherings and celebrations. A series of disasters, notably including the failed rebellion of M. Aemilius Lepidus in 78 BC, established a superstition against allowing Rome's market days to fall on the kalends of January and the pontiffs employed intercalation to avoid its occurrence.
--- end quoting Wikipedia ---
AP writes:: I wonder if the magnificent Ancient Greeks also started New Year on 1 March???
Archimedes Plutonium Mar 1, 2025, 4:59:48 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Since today is 1 March, I decided to bump up my Calendar Improvement book to coincide with my writing of that book. Literally experience March and 1 March being New Year's Day--- Happy New Year everyone!!!!!!!!
Happy New Year everyone #343 Calendar Improvement by Archimedes Plutonium.
Archimedes Plutonium Mar 1, 2025, 7:47:39 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
For me New Years Day is 1 March, not the stupid silly 1 January, the middle of winter when New Year's day should be the start of Spring Season, when things are happy and joyful as new tree and grass growth, with life abounding after a cold winter. Only daft people would have a 25 December holiday then a New Year's day 7 days later on 1 January. When you ask someone what was winter like in 1990? Do they mean 1989 or do they mean 1990 for half of winter falls in 1989 and the other half falls in 1990 and then there is 1991 part winter. So when you ask someone what was winter like in 1990, do you mean 1989 or 1990 or 1991? Whereas if anyone asked me what was winter like in 1990 all of winter falls in 1990 since New Years day was 1 March 1990.
February had 2 weeks of cold weather where daytime and nighttime never got above freezing.
Today 1MAR2025 had daytime high of 10 Centigrade and low tonight will be 6 Centigrade. Centigrade and Celsius are both the same and in school I was taught Centigrade. In Centigrade freezing is 0 degrees and boiling of water is 100 degrees at 1 atm pressure.
So a nice day and looking the weather forecast for next 10 days shows all daytime above freezing, even shows one day being 15 Centigrade.
Some reason, Spring is my most stirring season because life is rebounding. The only drawback I have of Spring is the onset of biting insects. And sometimes I feel Autumn is better but knowing that winter is next makes Spring be the best.
6) Calendar dictates a Week Holiday for everyone in February.
Archimedes Plutonium Mar 3, 2025, 6:55:54 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
So I immediately make an immense improvement on the Calendar, by making 1 March be New Year's Day and that March is the start of Spring. Some of my flowers have started to break soil-- daffodils and narcissus.
I should not have said that for I may have jinxed myself for on 4March we had a snow blizzard.
And this probably was what the Ancient calendar had in the rejoice of Springtime instead of the crazy idea of January 1st being New Year Day. For that is in the very middle of Winter. You would be crazy to split a calendar in the middle of the season. And probably because of Religion that they had 25 December a holiday and silly religion wanting a week later to be a holiday.
No wonder December means 10, November means 9, because the Ancients were more brilliant than Religion with making December act as if it is February. For when you make March the 1st month of the year, you automatically make December be 10th month of the year. And that January now becomes Unidecim and then February becomes 12 month as Duodecim. So I tend to think that the Ancients had December be 10th month and had March be the first month of the year with 1 March be New Year's Day.
Now can I make improvements on Month and on Weeks? I think the 7 days in a week are an impediment and that if all months were 30 days except February with its 35 days and 36 in leap year. Makes for a nice even 6 days in a week. So in essence, if March 1 was monday and we drop Sunday, then every month of that year has the first day as monday and the last day of that month would be Saturday. We simply have Saturday be day off and be a religion day for those that had Sunday as religion day.
Now some are going to complain that they need 2 days for weekend to relax and sleep for another work week. And I put it to you, that in February with 35 days instead of 30, that all people and workers get those 5 days (6 in a leap year) get those 5 days off as paid vacation and where all workers can just sleep through 5 solid days of sleep. Let the Calendar dictate a vacation to all workers by February 31, 32, 33, 34, 35.
Now how about improvement in the day, in the hours and minutes and seconds. Must we use 60 and 12 and 24, or is there a better scheme and framework???
7) Physics tells us there is no improvement in day, hour, minutes, seconds.
Archimedes Plutonium Mar 4, 2025, 12:32 AM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
On Monday, March 3, 2025 at 6:55:54 PM UTC-6 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
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Now how about improvement in the day, in the hours and minutes and seconds. Must we use 60 and 12 and 24, or is there a better scheme and framework???
I spent all day, Monday, March 3, thinking about the above question.
And I come to a very excellent fine conclusion. I was looking through the Constants of Physics and one of the greatest physics constants is that of Fine Structure. We normally see it as 1/137 = 0.0072.
--- quoting from my 260th published book of science---
A list of discovered and derived constant-relationals of Physics and Mathematics// math-physics
by Archimedes Plutonium
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So now, what sort of angle are we talking about in this Conjecture? Well a circle or torus has 360 degrees and thus we have 360/840 = about 0.428 degrees. We are talking about a small angle of 0.428 degrees that gives a torus the ability to move a band-width-muon through the torus, as freely as if it moves through a cylinder.
The angle of 0.428 degrees in radian measure is 0.0072, the Fine Structure Constant of physics.
So, this is an exquisite idea of the physics Fine Structure Constant. We knew its algebraic numeric value for a long time. Just today, we are learning its Geometry meaning.
Its geometry meaning is that give me a circle, any size of circle you want. Call it the unit circle. Then take 840 of those unit circles and make a slinky toy torus out of those 840 circles as 840 windings. It is the Minimum torus for that given size circle for which the muon electron as bar magnet, fits inside that slinky toy torus and does the Faraday Law producing Maximum Electricity.
As Wikipedia defined the Fine Structure Constant -- "fundamental physical constant which quantifies the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between.." elementary Dirac magnetic monopoles. AP is adverse to "charge" in physics for that is a fake concept and the true concept is magnetic monopoles.
--- end quoting from my 260th book ---
The reason humanity was fixated on a circle being 360 degrees, half circle 180 degrees and quarter circle and right triangles as 90 degrees. Is not by accident but because 360 is near 365 days in a year and in Ancient times, it made commonsense to do a full circle with 360 number. The number 360 is so evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and the numbers 360, 180, 90, 45, 22.5, 11.25, etc and going the other way 720, 1440, 2880,..... can the reader see the point to that sequences?? It is the theory of Nines. You add up the digits and it comes to 9 or a multiple of Nine.
So Mathematics is rooted, has a foundation in the Numbers for Space are Decimal Grid Numbers based on 1, 10, 100, 1000, etc and the other way 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1 the Scientific Notation which also is the numbers for Space. But Math has another sequence based on Theory of Nines which is time.
Decimal notation is Space for physics while Theory of Nines numbers represent Time.
So much is physics rooted in theory of Nines being time, that we can safely say, planets distance from their star will have a Theory of Nines planet--- Earth, that will have water and will have life.
Now I need to see if Europa follows the Theory of Nines, for it surely has an Ocean of Water.
I wrote a book on the Theory of Nines---
And so, there is no improvement in days, hours, minutes, seconds. For Theory of Nines is rooted to the Fine Structure Constant of Physics.
--- quoting from my 234th book of science ---
234th published book
The number 360 is not arbitrary but super special ;; Factorial and Theory of 9s// math research
by Archimedes Plutonium (Author) (Amazon's Kindle)
Preface: It is assumed in most of math and physics that 360 is a arbitrary number to represent angles of mathematics. It is a pleasant number because of its many factors, but until now, AP elevates the number 360 as super super special for it ties together pi of math and the Fine Structure Constant of physics. The only number in all of mathematics that can perform this connection.
The Theory of 9s in mathematics is viewed as numerology by almost the entire math community. On this score, they are all wrong, for as this book is going to show, that the Theory of 9s is the derivative of the 1st Quadrant of mathematics with respect to the Factorial function as the area of the entire 1st Quadrant-- the integral. So the connection drawn in this book is that Factorial is an integral function and the Theory of 9s is the derivative of Factorial.
Cover Picture: I like many of my cover pictures to be my own hand sketches or drawings or writing as if I am at the blackboard in a classroom and teaching, once again as I was a school teacher circa 1975 in Melbourne Australia, teaching classroom math. In this picture, I hand sketched a curve and a straightline functions. My first several curves had to be erased due to error in drawing (further details in text). But the point of this drawing is that the curve function represents the exponential function and the factorial function, while the straightline function represents a slope derivative of Theory of 9s.
--- end quoting from my 234th book ---
Archimedes Plutonium Mar 4, 2025, 12:49 AM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Jupiter aphelion is 5.4 AU which follows Theory of Nines.
And Earth at perihelion is 0.9 AU.
So the case can be made that both Earth and Europa are physics tied to the Sun as having the Fine Structure Constant in Astronomy where electricity magnetism make these two astronomy bodies have both water and life. So this is a sort of guess-predictor that Europa has life on it.
You see-- Mathematics true numbers are Decimal Grid Numbers-- the Scientific Notation that describes Space. While Theory of Nines describes numbers in motion as being Time.
Archimedes Plutonium Mar 4, 2025, 2:33 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
Simply Beautiful, Yet Amazing. I take the Fine Structure Constant 1/137 and it delivers a Theory of Nines number.
0.0072992700 7299......
Now one may want to argue that 0.3333..... is a Theory of Nines number or that 0.99999..... is a theory of Nines number, but those are not theory of Nines for Zeroes have to appear in the number to be a Decimal Grid Number which are the only valid numbers in Mathematics.
Archimedes Plutonium Mar 4, 2025, 6:19 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
As far as I know, every March in South Dakota has at least 1 blizzard snow storm. Today we have a blizzard snowstorm here in South Dakota.
But no, blizzard or no blizzard, make 1 March be New Year's Day.
Archimedes Plutonium Mar 5, 2025, 3:22 PM to Plutonium Atom Universe newsgroup.
I love it the way how one book of mine, leads to another new book. I had never realized before that Physics Fine Structure Constant 1/137 was a Theory of Nines number, but also, perhaps a Unique Theory of Nines number for that 0.00729927007299..... has zeroes in it while 0.3333..... or 0.6666..... has no zeroes in it. And now I am looking for the Rational number in Reals for numbers like 0.0072007200.......
So, what is the fallout of discovery that 1/137 is a Theory of Nines number??? What is the fallout? I suspect the fallout is that Old Math Reals are exposed as a sham like never before.
Sure, it is easy to find the Rational number that is 0.3333.... as 1/3 or the Rational number 0.6666.... as 2/3, and that is 0.1111..... as 1/9. But, what is the Rational number for 0.999999......
And we can all remember the endless b.s. of Old Math with their kook idea that 1 = 0.9999.... with their sham kook proof.
But now, with Theory of Nines applied to Rationals we expose the Reals of Old Math to perhaps their ultimate fakery. For Reals in Old Math are defined with Rationals. And the Rationals have a decimal representation of "repeating digits". The Rational number 1/137 repeats in 00729927. But here is the thing that goes wrong in Old Math. The Rational 0.00720072..... has no integer divided by integer. It exists as a decimal number but does not exist as a Rational. Same goes for 0.9999... which exists as a decimal number but not a Rational.
In Old Math they had the funny number of 0.123456789101112..... and called it Champernowne's Number and they could easily get away with that number in Reals by saying it was "irrational". But you cannot say that 0.999.... is irrational for the definition of rational in Old Math is that it repeats in digits.
So what the number 1/137 as a Theory of Nines number reveals to AP is that I can attack full scale the Reals of Old Math, for their very definition of being Rational is now blown out of the water. They define Rational as repeating digits but they fail to show where an infinitude of decimals that repeat in digits has a Rational representation. Take the case of 0.54 is a theory of Nines and is represented by 54/100 = 27/50 as a Rational, but then take the case of 0.54005400540054.......... is a Rational in decimal but has no Rational fraction representation.
So I need a new book titled--- Mathematics Real numbers are a pile of shit and only kook mathematicians use Reals.
The theme of the book is that Old Math professors had a definition of Rationals for which they contradicted themselves by saying a rational number repeats in digits in decimal form. Here we expose infinitude of repeating decimals yet they have no Rational form y/x.
8) Summary.
Please make March 1st be New Year's Day and have February be the last month of Winter with 35 days (36 in leap year) with all the other months having 30 days each. This gives every person a Calendar vacation in February of 5 days to sleep in (6 in a leap year) in addition to other vacations.
Simplify the calendar and make it logical starting with March, where March 1st is New Year's Day.
March 30 days
April 30 days
May 30 days
June 30 days
July 30 days
August 30 days
September 30 days
October 30 days
November 30 days
December 30 days
January 30 days
February 35 days except leap year 36
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The weather forecast for winter solstice where I live for 21December is 0 to 0.5 degrees Celsius. In other words a tiny bit above freezing.
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And never brought to mind,
And old equations be forgot,
And only Atom Plutonium thine,
For new equations sing, my dear
We will take a cup of kindness yet,
For Atom Plutonium is your and mine
Heard on BBC tonight, an hour before 1 Jan, the Scottish bagpipes-- Auld Lang Syne. Of course I want to put this on 1 March, my New Years day of the future.
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