# NASA scientist discovers missing day

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-scientist-discovers-missing-day/57482>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 10, 2001, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-scientist-discovers-missing-day/57482 "2001-03-10T22:53:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![spaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@spaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spaz)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-scientist-discovers-missing-day/57482/1 "2001-03-10T22:53:27Z")

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There are various ULs about someone in NASA  
discovering a missing day with various biblical  
explanations. I think this legend orginates from  
Magellan’s first circumnavigation of the globe  
nearly 500 years ago. When they finished  
the journey three years later their logbook  
indicated that they were missing a whole day.  
That’s because there was no International Dateline  
to take into account they missed a rotation of  
the Earth.

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**Author:** ![bryanmcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@bryanmcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bryanmcc)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-scientist-discovers-missing-day/57482/2 "2001-03-10T23:05:16Z")

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[http://www.snopes2.com/religion/lostday.htm](http://www.snopes2.com/religion/lostday.htm)

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-scientist-discovers-missing-day/57482/3 "2001-03-10T23:05:37Z")

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[Try looking here.](http://www.snopes2.com/religion/lostday.htm) Snopes is great, innit?

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**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-scientist-discovers-missing-day/57482/4 "2001-03-10T23:38:23Z")

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The above is what we refer to around here as a simulpost.

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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-scientist-discovers-missing-day/57482/5 "2001-03-11T01:51:31Z")

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A simulpost, but neither of you remembered to mention Cecil’s column on this topic –[Did scientists discover a “missing day” as predicted in the Bible?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_083.html) For shame! Remember – our Cecil is a jealous Cecil, and you shall have no other reference sources before him (i.e. it is okay to mention supplimentary sources, but only after first referencing Him).

Now say three “Hail Cecils” and buy a copy of _Return of the Straight Dope_ – the book which contains this particular column. And please memorize the entire table of contents.