Thursday, February 7, 2008

Rock 'n' Roll Math With Danko Jones


In preparation for the upcoming release of Never Too Loud, hard rock king Danko Jones' latest offering from to the rock 'n' roll gods, I was working my way through his discography. The other day I was plowing through 2003's We Sweat Blood, and on the title track Jones offers this calendar wish up:
I wish there was 80 seconds in a minute, 90 minutes in an hour, 60 hours in a day, 500 days in a year.

That's all well and good, but exactly how long is that? Danko's 500-day year would be 216,000,000 seconds long. By comparison, our 365-day year is a paltry 31,536,000 seconds long (and a 500-day "earth year" would only be 43,200,000 seconds) -- 6.8 times longer than our current year! Heaven help you if were born on Leap Day in Danko's world; you'd be lucky to turn three before you died. Any extreme science geeks want to figure out how far from the sun Planet Danko would be to accommodate his wish, if it revolved around the sun at the same speed as Earth?

In conclusion, Danko rocks regardless of length of day. Download "Code of the Road," Never Too Loud's first single here.

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