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Wonderful novel. Galactic standard time is still counted in the number of seconds since a certain epoch. (January 1st 1970 00:00 UTC as it happens, though bot
by retrac 4y ago
Wonderful novel. Galactic standard time is still counted in the number of seconds since a certain epoch. (January 1st 1970 00:00 UTC as it happens, though both that calendar system, and the precise significance, if any, of the date, are lost to history by the time of the novel. The first moon landing, maybe? So few records from that time survive.)
- thrtythreeforty 4y agoQeng Ho tradition holds that the epoch is the first moon landing, but Pham looked closer (he is a programmer-at-arms, it's his job to know these things) and saw that 1970 was the epoch.