#4.01pm

[yakultii]

5 October

[talonabraxas]

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (21st December) was at 8.08am, sunset is at 4.01pm

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus & Magnus,

Mom worked today. Choate boys went to Baker Park in Cammack Village this morning for Wren's birthday party -- she was in the other PHE kindergarten class. Gus liked exploring the park with Marguerite -- they found a dead frog and a robin's egg. Magnus liked playing basketball on a toddler goal and sitting in a tricycle. Afterward, we had lunch and I put Magnus down for a nap just as Nene dropped by for a visit. She and Gus went for a walk and played outside. She's been working on Gus's birthday cake for his party next week and brought a prototype Charizard (Pokémon) for Gus and she made a duck for Magnus, which he was happy to eat. Gus went to Rhett's to trade Pokémon cards for a while, then they came back to our house to play Nintendo. A good day.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 6.17.2023 - 4.01pm.

[michleonz]

On 520.

Someone came to say Hi to me.

After more than a year we didnt talk to each other.

I actually like her before.

Told her i like her.

However she has a bf at that moment.

And i said nicely told her lets not talk anymore since we both wont have an ending or a begining.

She was nice.

Politely we both slowly didnt contact.

520 day she said Hi,

Ask me how i am.

While she told me she break up already.

She ask me already 2 years still single.

How come.

I told her im still waiting on a star.

She told me to give up on you.

Dont wait you ler.

I said, let me try again.

I rather be alone, then be with somebody else than you at the moment.

-4.01pm

[twentythreemillionstories]

Tuesday 12th November 2024, Stefan Voda, 4.01pm.

#185,293 — A man and a woman are in love but they will not admit it. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk.

[veintitresmillonesdehistorias]

lunes 7º octubre 2024, -, 4.01pm.

#85.315 — Varios hombres compiten para ser declarados padre legítimo del bebé huérfano de una actriz de porno suicida. Al lado, debe construirse una pista de patinaje sobre hielo.

[aboutanancientenquiry]

"Four amazing astronomical discoveries from ancient Greece

Published: April 24, 2020 4.01pm CEST

Gareth Dorrian

Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham

Ian Whittaker

Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University

The Histories by Herodotus (484BC to 425BC) offers a remarkable window into the world as it was known to the ancient Greeks in the mid fifth century BC. Almost as interesting as what they knew, however, is what they did not know. This sets the baseline for the remarkable advances in their understanding over the next few centuries – simply relying on what they could observe with their own eyes.

Herodotus claimed that Africa was surrounded almost entirely by sea. How did he know this? He recounts the story of Phoenician sailors who were dispatched by King Neco II of Egypt (about 600BC), to sail around continental Africa, in a clockwise fashion, starting in the Red Sea. This story, if true, recounts the earliest known circumnavigation of Africa, but also contains an interesting insight into the astronomical knowledge of the ancient world.

The voyage took several years. Having rounded the southern tip of Africa, and following a westerly course, the sailors observed the Sun as being on their right hand side, above the northern horizon. This observation simply did not make sense at the time because they didn’t yet know that the Earth has a spherical shape, and that there is a southern hemisphere.

1. The planets orbit the Sun

A few centuries later, there had been a lot of progress. Aristarchus of Samos (310BC to 230BC) argued that the Sun was the “central fire” of the cosmos and he placed all of the then known planets in their correct order of distance around it. This is the earliest known heliocentric theory of the solar system.

Unfortunately, the original text in which he makes this argument has been lost to history, so we cannot know for certain how he worked it out. Aristarchus knew the Sun was much bigger than the Earth or the Moon, and he may have surmised that it should therefore have the central position in the solar system.

Nevertheless it is a jawdropping finding, especially when you consider that it wasn’t rediscovered until the 16th century, by Nicolaus Copernicus, who even acknowledged Aristarchus during the development of his own work.

2. The size of the Moon

One of Aristarchus’ books that did survive is about the sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon. In this remarkable treatise, Aristarchus laid out the earliest known attempted calculations of the relative sizes and distances to the Sun and Moon.

It had long been observed that the Sun and Moon appeared to be of the same apparent size in the sky, and that the Sun was further away. They realised this from solar eclipses, caused by the Moon passing in front of the Sun at a certain distance from Earth.

Also, at the instant when the Moon is at first or third quarter, Aristarchus reasoned that the Sun, Earth, and Moon would form a right-angled triangle.

As Pythagoras had determined how the lengths of triangle’s sides were related a couple of centuries earlier, Aristarchus used the triangle to estimate that the distance to the Sun was between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon. He also estimated that the size of the Moon was approximately one-third that of Earth, based on careful timing of lunar eclipses.

A 10th century reproduction of a diagram by Aristarchus showing some of the geometry he used in his calculations. wikipedia, CC BY-SA

While his estimated distance to the Sun was too low (the actual ratio is 390), on account of the lack of telescopic precision available at the time, the value for the ratio of the size of the Earth to the Moon is surprisingly accurate (the Moon has a diameter 0.27 times that of Earth).

Today, we know the size and distance to the moon accurately by a variety of means, including precise telescopes, radar observations and laser reflectors left on the surface by Apollo astronauts.

3. The Earth’s circumference

Eratosthenes (276BC to 195 BC) was chief librarian at the Great Library of Alexandria, and a keen experimentalist. Among his many achievements was the earliest known calculation of the circumference of the Earth. Pythagoras is generally regarded as the earliest proponent of a spherical Earth, although apparently not its size. Eratosthenes’ famous and yet simple method relied on measuring the different lengths of shadows cast by poles stuck vertically into the ground, at midday on the summer solstice, at different latitudes.

The Sun is sufficiently far away that, wherever its rays arrive at Earth, they are effectively parallel, as had previously been shown by Aristarchus. So the difference in the shadows demonstrated how much the Earth’s surface curved. Eratosthenes used this to estimate the Earth’s circumference as approximately 40,000km. This is within a couple of percent of the actual value, as established by modern geodesy (the science of the Earth’s shape).

Later, another scientist called Posidonius (135BC to 51BC) used a slightly different method and arrived at almost exactly the same answer. Posidonius lived on the island of Rhodes for much of his life. There he observed the bright star Canopus would lie very close to the horizon. However, when in Alexandria, in Egypt, he noted Canopus would ascend to some 7.5 degrees above the horizon.

Given that 7.5 degrees is 1/48th of a circle, he multiplied the distance from Rhodes to Alexandria by 48, and arrived at a value also of approximately 40,000km.

4. The first astronomical calculator

The world’s oldest surviving mechanical calculator is the Antikythera Mechanism. The amazing device was discovered in an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900.

The device is now fragmented by the passage of time, but when intact it would have appeared as a box housing dozens of finely machined bronze gear wheels. When manually rotated by a handle, the gears span dials on the exterior showing the phases of the Moon, the timing of lunar eclipses, and the positions of the five planets then known (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) at different times of the year. This even accounted for their retrograde motion – an illusionary change in the movement of planets through the sky.

We don’t know who built it, but it dates to some time between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC, and may even have been the work of Archimedes. Gearing technology with the sophistication of the Antikythera mechanism was not seen again for a thousand years.

Sadly, the vast majority of these works were lost to history and our scientific awakening was delayed by millennia. As a tool for introducing scientific measurement, the techniques of Eratosthenes are relatively easy to perform and require no special equipment, allowing those just beginning their interest in science to understand by doing, experimenting and, ultimately, following in the foot steps some of the first scientists.

One can but speculate where our civilisation might be now if this ancient science had continued unabated."

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Let's revisit the Gwyneth / Sushi restaurant story again as some of the facts being shared are not correct by u/Coffee_cake_101

Let's revisit the Gwyneth / Sushi restaurant story again as some of the facts being shared are not correct There is a misconception that Meghan went to the Sushi restaurant on Mother's Day and Gwyneth issued a story about what she did that day to debunk it. I don't believe for a second that Meghan went to dinner with her or Cameron, but I still prefer we get the facts straight.The story first emerged in TMZ on Saturday 13th May. It was billed as an exclusive, and the title was 'Harry and Meghan - Something's fishy for dinner (preggo rumour debunked?'. The photos were by Backgrid. At the time I assumed that they had just done a papped dinner for the same reason as the other ones they've done- to show that they are still together and so in love. It was a week after the coronation and her rejection of the invitation was leading to increased divorce speculation. She had also been photographed by Backgrid the previous Sunday on a hike with something round her waist. Although it looked nothing like pregnancy to me, some people had speculated. I am not sure if debunking the pregnancy myth was something Meghan was keen to do (hence deliberately choosing a sushi restaurant and being papped there), or whether it was an additional interpretation by TMZ. This article was published 4.01pm Saturday afternoon and said the dinner date was the previous evening (Friday).TMZ article: https://ift.tt/MP8ewmd following day on Sunday 14th, Page Six picked up the story and added to it with the 'exclusive' news that they ate with Cameron, Gwyneth, their husbands, plus Whitney Wolf Herd and her husband. I suspect that H&M belatedly realised that Cameron had been snapped in the photos so decided they could spin it into a different story. It is possible that Meghan made up all those other people being there, but more likely they were there, but nothing to do with Meghan. Page Six still said it happened Friday 12th, but the article was rapidly picked up and the story repeated by other online news sources, many of which omitted the Friday, leaving the impression that the dinner happened on Sunday 14th (Mother's day).Page Six article: https://ift.tt/31PJUpa Monday 15th, Gwyneth released news and pictures of what she did on Mother's day. She spent it with her daughter, who was also celebrating her birthday. I think it is highly possible she did this deliberately to disprove Meghan's claims, as she may have felt that the Sushi meal was claimed to be Sunday, for the reasons given above. It is also possible that she independently posted her Sunday pictures and knew the claims related to Friday. If the latter, she may have not debunked Meghan's claims because she was actually at the restaurant (but not with Meghan) and felt it best to stay silent and let people think she probably wasn't even there, rather than admit she was.The only other denials came from the twitter account of The Caribbean Prince (Freedom16356531). He said that Gwyneth's agent denied she was there, and Cameron was only there at the request of her agent (WME). This was widely retweeted across twitter, but not repeated in any online news. I have no idea who this guy is apart from an active anti-Meghan tweeter, but I am very sceptical that two A lister's agents would independently issue denials via a little known twitter account rather than via mainstream news outlets. So we have to treat this as dubious at best.Just to reiterate, I definitely don't believe that Meghan met Cameron and Gwyneth for dinner, but I am just trying to set the record straight about some of the facts. H&M lie so much and I feel the truth is important.https://ift.tt/uW96YZM post link: https://ift.tt/DVxp98M author: Coffee_cake_101 submitted: June 20, 2023 at 04:49PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[mtnkat3]

4.01pm. Yes my loves..... I am trying to relax & calm my soul from this pain by doing exactly that. Be a calm island. Not sure why such a thing was ok. Tears slipping. Gonna be quiet & pray thru the hurt. Yours.....~t.🙏🤲🗝🔱💝♾👣🧭🕯

[sergio-lopez]

London 4.01pm (at Selfridges) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coh1t4mojGIwMcAVH5iDv587luGm-g6w29ys8k0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kevinandbernice]

Well not much to report today I’m afraid. We checked out our room at 1030 but not collecting the rental car from the airport until 4pm. We went across the road to have a look around Pikes Place Market as Bern had not had a look around. We the headed off 7 blocks to The Cheesecake Factory for a light pasta lunch and a purchase of their cheesecake. It would be rude not to. After grabbing a drink we walked back to our hotel

It was then time for me to go and collect the rental car. I left around 2pm, and I had to catch the train to the airport terminal then get the Car Rental bus to the Rental Depot. Thankfully no queue at the desk so sorted out quickly and off to get the car. This time it was a Chevrolet Trax, which did seem a bit smaller than our last car, the Ford Escape, but when I queried it was told it was an intermediate SUV. Set of for the hotel to pick up Bern with sat nav saying I would get there at 4.01pm, 1 minute later than I had said I would be. Out of the depot and onto the Interstate Highway when a warning light came on and there was a loud rattle from the back when I went over a bump. To be honest it was a bit of a shed! Not having this thought so turned around and back to the rental depot. Spoke with a woman whose grasp of English was not great, but she took the car back and looked for a new one for me. I mentioned that the Ford Escape had seemed bigger so had she got one of those or similar. She turned the screen around and gave me a choice of 4. Not knowing the models I just picked one expecting it to be similar in size but when I got to it it was a massive 4x4 SUV with a pick-up bit at the back. I went to a different booth and found an American guy with a better command of English and explained. He said the car she had given me was about 5 grades above what I should have had and also a luxury model so he sorted me out a Toyota RAV4 which was almost new a a perfect size. Off I goes again and eventually get back to Bern at 5pm. Whilst I was going through this ordeal Bern was sat in the public area of the hotel reading her book - see first 2 pictures. Then it was load up the car and off to our next hotel, thankfully only about 35 miles away.

The other photo 4 photos that Bern took when we went to the Smith Tower on Sunday

[moonyfics]

[4.01pm] Don't translate or repost.

Wind was blowing through your hair as the two of you stood in the middle of a grassfield. "I love you". You whispered softly. "I loved you for so long". A smile lingered on Yeonjun's face before placing a delicate kiss on your lips. "I love you too. Always did and always will"..

[134340am]

YUNA 💗 I hope that massive coffee got you through your classes & that you’ll have enough energy to finish your assignment! I’m rooting for you!

For your ask game I’d like to know 18, 29, 38. Love u & you got this bubs! 🫶

nana!!!! my precious angel <3 how's school! how's everything! how r u tell me tell me :O oh! and my massive coffee powered me through my boring ass lecture AND it didn't give me the shits because it had soy milk 😋 yumza

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end.

have you ever prayed for blessings in someone else's life?

for a moment, you are not last trains and airplanes and the way august cuts your tongue and makes you swallow it. for a moment, you are bookstore dates and holding hands and sharing hot mugs of green tea while you wind down to the six o’clock news.

for a moment, time stops—

—then he let go of your hand. it just made you laugh. 

what’s so important about being together? what are you to each other? 

in the end we are all alone.

so when i wrote this i wanted it to play out like a movie... you know when the sunlight flash-flashes on the water and you have, like, a highlight reel playing before your eyes? that's what i wanted it to feel like!!! just fragments of what-could've-been's... there's references to earlier parts of the story, so trains and planes = obviously tooru leaving and getting further away from reader, august = nostalgia, bookstores = naoki + reader and tooru's second meeting, holding hands = mittens, green tea and six o clock news = what they always do after they um fuck

i wanted it to build to a climax and then have it come crashing down because all of this—the wishful thinking, the holding hands, etc—are all in reader's head... this was pretty easy to write because i spent the entire story building up to this moment and once i finished writing it it felt so!!! cathartic!!! so it didn't change much heh

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

everyday situations, feelings i can't explain (but try to), people, past experiences, my favourite films and books.... when i'm uninspired i go see the sea ^o^

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

omg this is a boring response but i don't really do anything that's out of the ordinary!!! hmm.... i always try to post on the dot? so, like, 2pm, or 3.30pm, stuff like that.... i don't like if it's a random time like 4.01pm.... yeaaahhhhhh

weird questions for writers ask game

[rowanphotographyagain]

4.01pm, 02/22

[moocha-muses]

@mikexx2 replied to your photo: Yes! “I’d love to, but we’re having a family...

   It’s wonderful in Owl Creek that all crime ceases for the day at 4.01pm  

Supervillains have families too, my dude.

[twentythreemillionstories]

Saturday 2nd November 2024, Tokyo, 4.01pm.

#184,763 — A refined upper-class woman, prosecuted for political reasons, seeks refuge in a faraway northern village, where two peasant, pious spinsters offer her protection. The ones who have been there the longest occupy the inferior floors and are the upper class of the Mole people. But the young woman turns up alive and unharmed that same day, saying that she had gone to visit a friend without informing her family.