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I think that guy was eating the glue (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by MobileTechGuy@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 53 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Vithar@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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,

[–] electrorocket@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That is a great book. Did you read the sequels?

[–] wtfeweguys@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] electrorocket@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Children of the Sky too.

[–] wtfeweguys@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 1 points 2 years 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).

[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

On the gripping hand, the Brownies could make way better clocks than we could.