# I have turned 31,776 times on this orb **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515 "2024-01-22T21:10:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/1 "2024-01-22T21:10:07Z")
The title says it all. And you don’t have to reply. Sorry ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/2 "2024-01-22T21:16:23Z")
A friend of mine used to celebrate every 1000 days he’d been alive. I know he’s still around, I wonder if he still does. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/3 "2024-01-22T21:21:59Z")
Fascinating. Always thought it was cool how the 1930s-2020s era of people saw the second-biggest adjustment in human technology possible in history up to this point (the biggest change, I’d imagine, was the 1880-1970 crowd, that got to see the beginning of flight and the landing on the Moon). (Actually, it’s debatable. The generation that ended in 1970 didn’t get to see the Internet.) **Hari Seldon** has gone from the time of Hitler in his ascendancy to the era of ChatGPT. Do you have any memories of World War II? ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/4 "2024-01-22T22:28:21Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Do you have any memories of World War II? There are two days I recall. The Death of FDR and the dropping of the bombs and VJ day. Of VE day I have no memory. Although I do recall my mother’s kid brother (who was about midway between her age and mine and was almost like an older brother to me) coming home from Germany and about to be shipped out to the Pacific when he suffered enormously from what was then called shell-shock and is not called PTSD and my mother somehow arranged for him to be hospitalized at Valley Forge where he finished out the war. But yes I grew up in an era when many people lacked a telephone and am now in the mobile phone era. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/5 "2024-01-22T22:31:39Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Do you have any memories of World War II? I went on a cruise with my parents 3 years ago, and they had an armed forces appreciation event. The MC started by asking if we had any WWII veterens in the audience. My dad (born 1926, then aged 94) stood up and the other vets were amazingly reverent to him. The MC said she’d been doing these events for years and had never had a WWII vet attend. He still calls weekly to ask computer questions. He’s seen a lot of stuff over his years. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/6 "2024-01-22T22:43:53Z")
My grandfather was born in October of 1900, just barely in the 19th century. As a fourteen year old I watched the moon landing with him. I am now older than my grandfather was on that day of the landing. And I’ve mentioned how my grandmother, his wife, was born December 17th 1904, one year to the day after the Wright brother flew at Kitty Hawk… Grandma also voted in the presidential election of 2012. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/7 "2024-01-22T22:51:07Z")
WOO-HOOOooooo! Happy Birthday, Hari. [Although, I have to wonder if there’s still any Birthday Novelty at this point :-)] ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/8 "2024-01-22T22:55:22Z")
Assuming it is in fact your 87th birthday, then your count is a bit off. There are a bit more than 366, not 365, sidereal days in a year. ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/9 "2024-01-22T23:16:44Z")
Checking on a site for calculating your age on different planets, I see the OP is just over one Uranian year old, and can look forward to turning three on Saturn in early June, 2025. Maybe put in a [cake order](https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/my-cakes-and-other-goodies--322640760791217740/) for then? Planet age calculator: [https://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/solar-system/age](https://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/solar-system/age) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/10 "2024-01-22T23:24:56Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Assuming it is in fact your 87th birthday, then your count is a bit off. There are a bit more than 366, not 365, sidereal days in a year. You’re right of course. It is still a special day. My wife baked a cake (no candles), one of my kids has called already and the other two will call later. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/11 "2024-01-22T23:31:28Z")
Congratulations! And thanks for making this Old Fart feel like a youngster! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/12 "2024-01-23T01:01:39Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > A friend of mine used to celebrate every 1000 days he’d been alive. Cool idea. Is there an easy way to calculate this? Happy birthday, Hari! mmm ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/13 "2024-01-23T01:11:54Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Cool idea. Is there an easy way to calculate this? > **[Calculate How Many Days You Have Lived | imRodMartin](https://imrodmartin.com/my-days)** > > Calculate my days - how many days you have been alive ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/14 "2024-01-23T01:23:04Z")
You have kept track of every single time you have spun around? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/15 "2024-01-23T01:26:32Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > My wife baked a cake (no candles), Liable to be a bit of a fire hazard! 😆 Happy Birthday! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/16 "2024-01-23T01:36:05Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > > Cool idea. Is there an easy way to calculate this? > > [Calculate How Many Days You Have Lived | imRodMartin](https://imrodmartin.com/my-days) Thanks for that. So I’ve been drawing breath for 24,054 days. Dang, I just missed marking 24,000 by a couple months. Now I have to wait about 2 1/2 years to celebrate 25,000. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-turned-31-776-times-on-this-orb/996515/17 "2024-01-23T02:25:36Z")
I’d tell you but I don’t have enough fingers. I don’t know much about my grandparents, but by my best guess, they were born after the American Civil War and before Germany was a country. According to Google that’s over 57,000 days. I have no documentation at all for them; they lived when paperwork was either not necessary or easily destroyed. Hard even to imagine being that close to that world.