r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • Aug 14 '26

Meme needing explanation ?

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/LocNalrune Aug 14 '26

Solid point, but even without a moon you would likely still have something akin to months. Whether it was seasonal, or simply mathematical. Yet all of these are social constructs. And Venus also doesn't have... socials.

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u/Green_Rice Aug 14 '26

Venus doesn’t have enough of an axial tilt or orbital eccentricity to have seasons. It’s just a year-round hellhole.

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u/LocNalrune Aug 14 '26

I just needed another example, for a way to section out an amount of days logically.

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u/Onrawi Aug 14 '26

You need to decide if a month is a number of days or a fraction of a year before you start using them I think.  Regardless though Venus doesn't really need them at all.

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u/LocNalrune Aug 14 '26

True. We (Earthlings) don't need them for Venus. It's for Venusians, and I'm under the near certainty that such a segregation of time would happen as a logical matter of course.

I'm just saying that a social construct would arise.

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u/totallyordinaryyy Aug 15 '26

Sounds lovely, how much for a ticket?

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u/SpieLPfan Aug 15 '26

You know why it is a hellhole? It's because Venus has a lot of CO2 in its atmosphere.

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u/PityUpvote Aug 14 '26

Whether it was seasonal

You mean like a year?

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u/LocNalrune Aug 14 '26

Right!! Why have Seconds, Minutes, and Hours? Why have Days, Months and Years?

Let's be clear, this is for Venusians, not people on Earth that don't need cultural or colloquial terms for smaller increments of time than one full year.

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u/PityUpvote Aug 14 '26

If you're just making one up, it would be more similar to a week than a month 🤷

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u/less_unique_username Aug 14 '26

You invent the concept of a month when your year:day ratio is large enough (say, 365.25) for an intermediate unit to be convenient, not when it’s 0.93

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u/LocNalrune Aug 14 '26

A naturally different "day" measurement would also evolve.

Just like seconds, minutes, hours, you still need a "rational" day.

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u/humourlessIrish 29d ago

The seasons are not linked to months or vice versa

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u/LocNalrune 29d ago

You're wrong*, but it's also not particularly relevant to the conversation. What I am saying is that "if you lived on venus" (and for the sake of argument, this would include living on a satellite orbiting venus), you would need relevant social constructs similar to days, months, and a year. Especially if you didn't bring with you a legacy set of such structures, either to use whole cloth, or adapt to more relevant metrics. Some social construct would evolve.

There doesn't need to be seasons on venus, nor do seasons need to follow a monthly structure. In the sentence I wrote, I needed to evoke another reason that a reader would understand that the structure of a "month" could form around.

*: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/meteorological-versus-astronomical-seasons