It’s here, the end of a decade.
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Since there is no year zero, when does a decade end?
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Good question.
Quora says:
“With the sole exception of the very first decade (1-10 AD), western historians believe that every subsequent decade begins on a year ending in zero, e.g. 1920-29, because the year ending in zero is nevertheless a full year.”
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If it was the Twentieth Century, we would mark every decade close with a two year lead-in of opinion pieces and widespread angst over what it meant for cultural identity.
Now? I think people will go “Huh?!?”, with a shrug when they see the number change on their phone (and for the record, I think that’s better…).
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By getting shit-faced, same as we do every other year, obviously.
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This year, there will be more optician jokes, obviously…
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I see what you did there! Clearly.
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With the exception of the first decade CE/BCE, there’s no reason not to group decades by the tens column. Otherwise you get situations like this:
A: I was born in the 1970s.
B: Which year?
A: 1980.
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Hey, we’ll be able to get those wacky novelty glasses with eyeholes inside the zeroes again! (Not that they ever really gave up on making those, but it’s been kind of a stretch ever since 2010, amirite?)
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With a party and a revolution.
Probably better not to have them both at the same time.
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Setting aside the diplomatic problems it’d cause…
It’d be pretty cool to see a really massive H-Bomb go off at a very high altitude. Maybe 20,000 km, or how about 150,000 km. Something big enough for the whole planet to see for a week.
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How to mark it. Hmm. Let’s see.
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