[FRIAM] Sunset and Sunrise

[Russ Abbott]

Rodney Brooks on AI, etc. I agree wish pretty much everything he says.

http://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2021-january-01/

-- Russ Abbott
Professor, Computer Science
California State University, Los Angeles


On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 6:48 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This topic came up at a recent meeting.  The word "main" makes me wonder
> what the other reasons are.
>
> The main reasons for the *earliest* sunset to occur in early December and
> the *latest sunrise* to occur in January are the fact that Earth's axis
> is tilted (23.5°) and Earth's orbit around the sun is *not* a perfect
> circle shape.
>
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