Red Calendar
Today Why Shop Timeline English עברית हिन्दी 中文 Spoken / Translated Versions — Click a button MPC – Mars Perennial Calendar We live at an interesting point in the timeline. China successfully replicated Elon Musk’s self-landing rocket, which led me to ask whether GPC — the Global Perennial Calendar — could work on Mars. This, of course, led to designing a completely new calendar for the Red Planet, which hopefully may spur humans to become an interplanetary species. Let’s briefly discuss what GPC is so that my train of thought can make sense to the uninitiated. In the first century, the Qumran cult, which inhabited regions near the Dead Sea, praised their Enochian calendar for its uniformity. It was likened to angels. The year, which began in spring, had 364 days. This meant that each quarter had exactly 91 days and the year always started on a Wednesday. This was shorter than a natural year, so every seven years an extra week was added. Leap Week years were calle...