I recently learned that the capital of West Germany was Bonn and realized almost no one I know knew.
It might be common knowledge here, and it also might be a generational thing.
That got me thinking that it would be interesting to put together a quiz with similar questions that you feel that you should know the answer to, but a lot of people don’t. So no trick questions or complicated questions. Just really easy questions that a lot of people don’t know the answer to.
Not really, no. The tilt of the Earth causes the seasons. If the Earth was not tilted there would be no seasons. (Assuming a perfectly circular orbit as well).
I knew both answers (Capital of West Germany and date of the atomic bombing) pats himself in the back with a smug smile
But I didn’t know women don’t have prostates until the embarrassing age of 12.
And I only recently finally grokked how seasons work.
My mom was pregnant with my littlest sister and needed to pee very often, so I professorially stated to my whole family that it must be “because the placenta is constricting her prostate”
I just realized I never thought about it. I probably thought it was West Berlin a long time ago, but never thought about it after learning they West Berlin Was inside East Germany.
We don’t, as it turns out, and if said orbit was sufficiently eccentric, the distance variation would indeed lead to seasons. For the spirit of the thread, when is the closest approach of Earth to the Sun?
January 3rd, which actually does moderate the seasonal effects from the tilt, where if it was in say early July would make Northern Hemisphere summers hotter.
That’s right, which is why I said to assume a perfectly circular orbit. Summers are slightly hotter in the Southern Hemisphere because of the eccentricity.
I suppose that if the Earth orbited the Sun at a distance of half a light year or so there would be no seasons of any kind, no matter what the tilt. In that respect, the Sun is responsible for the existence of seasons of any kind.
