Mars Needs Leap Days Too

Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by btilly on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:07PM (#22470508)

5 gigaseconds is about 150 years, so your "graduated early" indicates some serious life extension technology.

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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by Aenyn on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:37AM (#22473086)

And a hectosecond (which I assume is what a hectasec is) is just one minute and forty seconds... I hope he would be able to stay awake a little longer than that.

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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:31AM (#22473886)

What would the name be for 100,000 seconds? An earth day is 86400 seconds...

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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:30AM (#22473882)

Yeah I figured that out when I was driving home... :)

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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by adeeds on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:25PM (#22470613)

or relativistic travel

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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by n0rbwah on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:28AM (#22473058)

Wouldn't you use subjective time for this kind of things?

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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by sudhirj on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:51AM (#22472382)

Whose gigasecs, then?

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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by jcims on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @02:06AM (#22472440)

Tinder for nerds?

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