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Wait a minute: someday the aliens are going to land and we gotta explain our calendar, sure. Or, _we_ don’t. Someon—- pardon me —- _Something_ has to explai
by cafed00d 4y ago
Wait a minute: someday the aliens are going to land and we gotta explain our calendar, sure.
Or, _we_ don’t.
Someon—- pardon me —- _Something_ has to explain it to them.
That thing is gonna say: “yeah, the epoch is our earliest known ancestor’s origin. Those animals call it ‘Unix time’. We have a record of their hieroglyphic form: January 1 1970”
- duskwuff 4y agoTo riff on a bit from A Deepness in the Sky: "We thought they were measuring from when their species first travelled to their homeworld's moon, but the point of reference is actually around fifteen megaseconds later. No idea why."