Here Comes The Sun And I Say, It's All Wrong

(doo doo doo doo, little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter)


Actually that "doo doo" part of the song is quite appropriate considering the crap I'm supposed to believe now.


I see a Hubbard blog post referencing that the number 93 is an obvious reference to the Sun since the Sun is 93 million miles awsy from the Earth.


No. No it isn't. For relatively brief periods of time it is, but it's been established that Earth has an elliptical orbit around the Sun, and that's the average distance. And that's rounded. The actual number is 92,955,828 miles.


If you want to nitpick about the 44,172 mile difference there us an argument that 93 million us close enough. It's a difference if 5 hundredths if a percent. But the elliptical orbit doesn't vary between 92,954,000 and 92,956,000 miles, it's between 91 million and 94 million miles. Now we're talking over two percent difference. For some perspective the 44,172 difference is also about 1/5th of the difference between the Earth and the Moon and compares significantly different to the diameter of the Earth.


Now the reasons for how the 93 number were picked are apparently either:
1)  Some cosmic entity that must have near infinite power decided that it was easier to pick some particularly annoying humans as his/her vessel to report that the evil scientists are wrong, and he didn't use that near infinite power to simply make it obvious that he wanted it to be 93 million miles.


2). That cosmic entity had a particularly bad day, and just thought, "What the hell, I'll change it later.". (My team if acronym makers call this the OFFICE theory. Oh, Fuckety Fuck, It's Close Enough)


3). Some enlightened individuals have discovered the cover up and realized that the governments and bankers are hiding the actual distance to the Sun because it means that Phoenix will win the NBA championship in a year to be determined later, and reported after the fact.


 4). Or maybe it's a group of attention whores that never passed high school math and science that remembered something one of the few moments they were awake in class. And when they wanted to through their sciency type words and figures around they didn't know better or likely figured that the target audience would ooohhh and aaaahhh about how cool it is and never question the source getting some facts straight.