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AliMcGraw t1_jabbit3 wrote

Reply to comment by annomandaris in Eli5: How did people know how long a year was in olden times? by Slokkkk

Also deadass giveaway that someone is a man who doesn't know much about women and generally lacks curiosity about the world when it doesn't occur to them that a lunar cycle would be of INTENSE INTEREST and OBVIOUS USE to the 50% of humans who menstruate on roughly a lunar cycle.

"Well, I don't need to know the lunar cycle, so I don't see why ANYONE would," u/icelandichorsey harrumpfs to himself, before explaining to the woman unfortunate enough to sit next to him on public transit how science works, actually.

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im_the_real_dad t1_jaciaaf wrote

So you're saying that the lunar cycle appears to be 23 days long to some women and it appears to be 33 days long to other women and to still other women the moon goes through the lunar cycle in some number of days in between?

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icelandichorsey t1_jabmwj2 wrote

I'm sorry, what the actual fuck? How did you get there from my 2 lines about the scientific method? You know literally nothing abjht me. Projecting much?

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