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    5411 months 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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      2911 months 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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          111 months 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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              111 months ago

              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).