The Metric Birthday
 

I am not very old. I realize this. However, I am old enough that I haven't been able to muster up much enthusiasm for my last few birthdays, as they seem to come up more and more rapid fire. Despite this, I wanted to get together and celebrate the passage of time with some friends, so hit upon the idea of celebrating something else instead: The Metric Birthday.

On Saturday, I was (turned? I haven't quite got the verbage down yet) 10,000 days old.

Now, a cursory internet search turns up a few hits for that term (and even more so on the concept of celebrating a N-thousandth day in general), but I can safely claim to have come up with the concept and term completely independent of any other influence...co-discovered if you will. I believe the concept of tracking kilodays rather than years has a lot of advantages, scientifically, over tracking years:

• All kilodays are the same length...there are no leap-kilodays
• The cycle of the earth's spin on its axis affects our lives much more than the cycle of the earth around the sun.
• If we ever venture off into space, years will become irrelevant, but kilodays could persist
• Your kilodays will happen in various seasons, so no need to be stuck as a Christmas/summer/winter birthday forever
• It's a nerdy cool excuse for a party!

Has anyone else celebrated any of their metric birthdays? I'm definitely going to have parties for my daughter's kilodays. If you want to convert from years to days, it's about years/2.74--your 10k-day happens around when you're 27 years, four-and-a-half months.

Interesting - I turn 15000 next year.

XL is a pretty good way to calculate your days.

Put in a cell with your birthdate (A1), and a second that has =TODAY() formula (A2). Next in a third cell, subtract the two cells (A3=A2-A1) - it should return a number.

Now, to figure out a particular anniversary (e.g. 10000), put this number in a cell (A4) and calculate (A5=A1+A4). This should return a date!

So a few months back I looked at this too, and if I were into numerology I'd have to shit myself.

I was born 7/27/1985. My 10,000th day on this planet is ... get this.. Wednesday... December 12, 2012. 12/12/2012.

At any rate, I'm not much to think birthdays are all that meaningful or that numbers have some sort of crazy significance, that just made me laugh when I found out. I'm going to celebrate it, whether the earth explodes or not.

With my son, we had a party every time he reached another stone (14 lbs). I don't even remember how we came up with that. One of his gifts was a 14 lb. stone added to the rock garden each time. It's not easy to find cool looking 14 lb. stones. I would say that is WAY nerdier than the kiloday party. With any luck, we all get to quit celebrating them eventually.

i'll post my metric birthday when b(o)(o)bby posts his...

Today is my 15,517th day on the planet.

I measured my time on this Earth in days, weeks and months about 12-15 months ago. It was kinda interesting, if only diverting. I followed it up by seeing if it was possible to change the number of hours in a day from 24 to 27, and then seeing if all months could be held to a static 28-30 days, and still at the end of the year, have the number of Earth hours' time equal to what it is now (where we have a calendar comprised of 365 1/4 days).

Anyway, the number was some grand 18,470+, and then I thought it was close enough to the next milestone (20K) that I'd keep a daily tally until it occured, but I've forgotten about it. It must have passed. I'm no good with celebratory markers unless they are there to remind what I've probably forgotten, not the other way 'round.

It might be nerdier if you celebrate you birthdays on other planets.... Figure out where the planets were in orbit back when you were born, and every time they cross that point throw another party.

But it does seem like a cool idea.

Another thing to try and remember. I am now 12.459 metric kilodays old. Let's see, there are 2.74 standard years in a metric kiloday. That makes me 34.14 years, more or less. How much is that in nanoseconds?
With my metric cloth measuring tape I have a 61 cm waist which converts to about 24 inches. I don't know, 61 makes me sound fatter than 24!:grumpy:
I'm afraid if we give this idea 25.4 mm it will take 1610 meters.:)

Lindy