• @[email protected]
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    377 hours ago

    This is actually an interesting question. How is age handled in a space-age civilization? Someone born on one planet could be 10 while on a different planet they’d be 50 in the same timeframe. What if you spend part of your life on one and the rest on another? It’d be inconvenient to use one planet’s ‘day’ as the standard, as they’d all be different lengths…

    • @grue
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      72 hours ago

      You count time in semi-arbitrary “stardates” instead.

    • @Sertou
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      406 hours ago

      In Star Wars, a Galactic Standard Year corresponded to the time it took Coruscant to orbit it’s star once, 368 standard days.

      • @jettrscga
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        466 hours ago

        You can tell it’s a crazy sci-fi galaxy because the year is 3 days longer than ours. They really went wild with these ideas sometimes.

        • @Sertou
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          65 hours ago

          What, laser-sword welding space wizards weren’t crazy enough for you?

          • @jettrscga
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            145 hours ago

            I was just coming to terms with that, but now knowing he has 3 more days per year to plan than I do… I’m starting to get concerned again.

    • StametsOP
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      97 hours ago

      You could pick a neutral thing and then denote that as the galactic ‘clock’. We do it as humans to an extent. We use Pulsars to measure distance and time because of the extremely precise rotation times.

    • @[email protected]
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      77 hours ago

      Use a unit of time based on universal constants, like seconds, an earth year is roughly 31.5Ms.

    • Flax
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      27 hours ago

      You’d convert both of their ages.

      Either that, or we’d just use UTC, still. Like on the ISS or Mars. Bet you computers in that timeframe would be hard built on earth’s and society’s system.

    • Darth_Mew
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      66 hours ago

      the Pedo(not fart) Menace

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    16 hours ago

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