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by MR4D 2208 days ago
They may be primes, but they are primes of an Earth day, which, as far as I am aware, is the only place where those numbers would be 157 & 67.

As an example, our day on Earth is roughly 1440 minutes, while on Mars it is 1477 minutes. So on Mars it would be 153 & 65 day intervals.

I deliberately chose the closest comparison to Earth. Had I chosen any other planet in our solar system, the numbers would have been much, much more different (on Jupiter it would be 406 & 173 days, respectively).

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Perhaps someone can find a planet where the timing is in the Fibonacci sequence relative to some local time measurement mechanism.
Not that it means anything, but are you using Mars or Earth days for Mars?
What do you mean? He's using Mars days, 1477 minutes long.
Mars days in Earth minutes >:)
There are no other minutes :P
no, those are Mars minutes