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Originally Posted by Kitsoru
Thaaaank you Eeni! I am terrible with math, but I knew it was something like that :U
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Ya... someone should really try and find a flaw with my system, I've failed my College Algebra class twice now
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Originally Posted by Deacon Blues
*laughs* I made a boo boo. AC-182 is when it starts! Herp derp.
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ALRIGHT! Regardless of the info, whatever is printed in the magazine is wrong. MC 0022 is AC 223 and not 211 (it's a 12 years difference), making our original pilots 43 years old, like Kitsoru said. But thank you Deacon, this makes ages much more believable for FT.
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Originally Posted by Kitsoru
Hmm, question. Would AC 223 be MC0022 FIRST or NEXT seasons?
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Glad you asked! This was exactly what I was looking into in order to figure out dates for FT. Being the insomniac that I am, I looked up possible calendars to be used for keeping time relevant between Earth and Mars. The most predominant one that I ran into is the Darian Calender
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darian_calendar. Its simple, with even numbers, and makes everything so pretty and easy to use.
A Martian year is 668 days. Using the Darian Calender, the year is divided into 24 months consisting of 28 days each, every 6th month has 27 days, and every decade we get a leap year, adding an extra day onto the last month of the year (just don't know if thats every Earth or Martian decade). Anyways, reading up about how seasons actually occur on Mars left me utterly confused. So for the sake of keeping things simple I just decided to divide the 8 seasons from FT into the 24 month period, getting 3 months per season.
Meaning that MC 0022 would look something like:
1st spring............ Jan.- March AC 223
1st summer.......... April- June AC 223
1st autumn.......... July- Sept. AC 223
1st winter........... Oct.- Dec. AC 223
next spring.......... Jan.- March AC 224
next summer........ April- June AC 224
next autumn........ July- Sept. AC 224
next winter.......... Oct.- Dec.AC 224
SOOOOOOOO, MC 0022
Next Winter would be sometime between Oct.- Dec. of AC 224. At least this is what makes sense to me.
Now for lunch!