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Re:Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastli... by buu700 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @11:08AM (#40789595)
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but the concept of an alien species with a totally different subjective perception of time would be interesting. As in all of our actions/movements/speech would be experienced as being on e.g. 10x fast forward to them, or vice versa.
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Re:Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastli... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @11:42AM (#40789979)
Dragon’s Egg is a story about this concept.

Spoilers from the Wikipedia

  The rest of the story, including almost the whole history of cheela civilization, spans from 22 May 2050 to 21 June 2050. By humans' standards, a "day" on Dragon's Egg is about 0.2 seconds, and a typical cheela's lifetime is about 40 minutes.
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