Interesting Links for 20-12-2012

• The nearest Sun-like star has five planets, including one in the habitable zone.
  (tags: astronomy )
• Developer of FB Purity is banned from Facebook for making it too usable.
  (tags: facebook )
• Director of Prosecution states that rudeness and offensiveness should not be prosecuted.
  (tags: law freespeech uk )
• Apocalypse confirmed for 4.59pm this Friday
  (tags: apocalypse funny )
• UK to vote on return to ‘good old days’
  (tags: uk satire funny politics history )
• The Internet only just works. (And for very good reasons)
  (tags: design internet )
• Gun Violence and Gun Ownership – lets look at the data
  (tags: viaLizzieCassMaran usa crime guns )
• How the world's Mayan apocalypse believers are waiting for the end
  (tags: EpicStupidity apocalypse )
• 32 People Who Should Not Be Allowed On Facebook In 2013
  (tags: fail facebook )
• How to plan a party for introverts
  (tags: planning party introvert )
• Jaguars fall, everyone dies - a brief history of Mesoamerican apocalpses
  (tags: mythology religion history apocalypse )
• How the introduction of notation to juggling allowed the discovery of new tricks.
  (tags: juggling mathematics patterns )
• More indication that certain bacteria can cause weight gain
  (tags: bacteria weight obesity )

A question for the astronomers in the audience...

How much longer would the Earth's orbit around the sun have to be for (most of) the planet to be uninhabitable?

Would 10% do it? The poles get pretty damn chilly as it is, if we added another month in there between December and January, would the whole of Europe be similar?

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