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India-Pakistan
Lunar confusion
2019-06-02
[DAWN] THE development of an app that would tell us about the lunar positions for working out the dates of important Islamic events might signal Pakistain’s entry into the 21st century.

Except that numerous astronomical websites have been providing this information for years. And before the internet came along, scientific almanacs could be consulted for this data.

But even now, our holy mans are dragging their feet over accepting projections of the moon’s position in their determination to drag Pakistain back to the mediaeval ages. Never mind that the Aztecs, Egyptians and other ancient civilisations had worked out this data thousands of years ago. Even Soddy Arabia
Posted by:Fred

#3  And the Antekythera mechanism could calculate the 9 year cycle of the precession of the Moon's orbit in the 3rd century BC.

Entry into the 21st century is gonna take a lot longer for those buffoons.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-06-02 08:49  

#2  How will several hundred star-gazing clerics, government pimps contractors and their relatives make moolah ?

Roads and Power by China Overseas Port Co., mining ans steel by Jindal and others, Law enforcement by roadside lunatics, pretty much all activity in 'The Stain' is already up for grabs.

There remains nothing else to be contracted out.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-06-02 07:37  

#1  This can all be determined with insane precision mathematically. Doesn't the media always strain to remind us that the muzz invented maff? Just askin...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-06-02 01:20  

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