#eid I like the fact that Muslim holidays are set by actual
   sightings of the #moon It's a constant reminder that our
   #calendar calculations are still not perfect - that all of our
   clocks are always wrong and our calendars are always wrong.

   it's nice to know that a large part of the human population is
   still recognizing ''actual'' versus ''predicted''.

   We trust so much in ''almosts'' - it's nice to see ''actuals''.
   - plus the fact that the process requires HUMAN involvement and
   agreement for it to be true; about as scientific of an
   observation as one is going to get.

   No surprise though: the Muslim world were always the leaders in
   Science and Mathematics, especially back when the Western World
   was Jousting and drinking Meade and fighting the Black Plague
   and stuff (they didn't have a ''fall of the Roman Empire'' like
   the West did, so they kept growing technologically)