Re: [unrev-II] Stardates

From: Eric Armstrong (eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 16:31:22 PST

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    Yeah! Especially at warp 9! How old are they now,
    anyway, about a thousand years?

    Bill Bearden wrote:
    >
    > Just for fun ;-)
    >
    > Remember, according to Einstein, time is not a constant. The relative
    > rate of time is lower the faster one travels. 6 hours on and 6 hours
    > off on a vehicle traveling close to the speed of light might be many
    > years from the standpoint of another person "stationary" on the Earth.
    >
    > Maybe stardates are something like dog years or Internet time.
    >
    > Happy Vet's Day...
    >
    > on 11/11/00 10:11 AM, Eric Armstrong at eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com
    > wrote:
    >
    > How do they calculate Star Trek "stardates", anyway?
    >
    > I mean, it makes sense that you couldn't use Earth's
    > revolutions around the Sun as a time keeping device.
    > After all, you're a gazillion miles away.
    >
    > <<SNIP>>
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