• hawkwind@lemmy.management
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    1 year ago

    We should just use second notation for everything.

    I’ll be there in 5 min? I’ll be there in 2 or 3 hundo!

    See you tommorow? See you in in 86K!

    Next week? About half a Megasec!

    Doesn’t Megasecond sound better than Fortnite?

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      1 year ago

      There is a fun fun sci-fi book called “Deepness in the Sky” by Vernor Vinge. The Humans use epoch time with si prefixed Seconds for time,

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          1 year ago

          Did you say sequels??? I’ve read A Fire Upon the Deep and a Deepness in the Sky. There are others???

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              I’ll have to check that out. I’ve enjoyed some of Vinge’s other work as well. The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime, and Rainbow’s End were all pretty great reads as I recall (been awhile).