@[email protected] to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 2 years agoA year in Mars is longer than the ones on Earth, so ppl living on Mars would celebrate less birthdays and technically die younger.message-square21fedilinkarrow-up1157arrow-down115
arrow-up1142arrow-down1message-squareA year in Mars is longer than the ones on Earth, so ppl living on Mars would celebrate less birthdays and technically die younger.@[email protected] to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-square@UnderwearlinkEnglish4•2 years ago I think for the foreseeable future, we’d likely still track age via Earth years for the sake of avoiding this kind of thing This is actually how it’s handled in the science fiction universes. Star Wars for example uses Corusant time as the standard across the galaxy.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoBelters in the expanse are bitter at their colonial ancestors for dictating how they measure time and space
minus-square@InverseParallaxlinkEnglish3•2 years agoAye beratna, it’s hard to feel we matter out here, the distances are so vast, it’s hard to believe that we can make a difference.
minus-square@AbouBenAdhemlinkEnglish1•edit-22 years ago Even our sense of time comes from them. The time it takes the Earth to spin on its axis; the Earth to go once around the Sun. On Jupiter, you’d be celebrating your first birthday. It’s hard to feel we matter out here, isn’t it?
This is actually how it’s handled in the science fiction universes. Star Wars for example uses Corusant time as the standard across the galaxy.
Belters in the expanse are bitter at their colonial ancestors for dictating how they measure time and space
Aye beratna, it’s hard to feel we matter out here, the distances are so vast, it’s hard to believe that we can make a difference.