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backwards calendar
In old history, Socrates said something like democracy is no good without people having access to the best available knowledge.
Ballot boxes are currently ignorant about the motion of the sun and its inverse square law.
Better planetary motion and tidal knowledge permeating education is not going to stop earthquakes and hurricanes and viruses and asteroids or calamities like those. On the other hand, Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler would hardly wish their fixed sun mistake to be an ongoing part of democratic reckonings.
Currently we live count up calendars. A count down calendar gives perspective of where we are going. Sets the goal of getting there.
Sound academics work out when the next major planetary alignment is due. Plausibly that is 472 years in front of us. Call that year zero. Next year would not be 2021 A.D. Next year would be 471 Pre Alignment. The one after that 470 Pre Alignment. The planet gets younger as its citizens get older. Better fun. Or stick to religious calendars and fight wars and they sort of decided destiny.
More so than the stars, the constantly changing heights of oceans are our first base glance at the rest of the universe.