Just made use of the fact that I know offhand how long a kilosecond is. Thanks, sci-fi.
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@avibryant I do, however, know the approximate dimensions of the Earth in milli-light-seconds offhand.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@strlen@avibryant Got it one. Although I've since occasionally encountered it elsewhere -- I think@cstross uses it in some of his scifi -
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@nelhage I was confusing "FTL space travel" sci-fi with the much less plausible "everyone adopts a metric time system" sci-fi. -
@avibryant@nelhage What ever happen to Swatch Beats? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time … -
@evanphx@avibryant@nelhage I wore one of those watches for 2 years. -
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