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I told myself I wasn't going to write hard sci-fi, and here I am devising a calendar based on the half-life of the Hydrogen-3 isotope. #nerdlife
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@scribus I've a table of alien measurements of time listed in relation to each other, relation to Earth time, and relation to their conversational equivalent in Earth time.
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@scribus Half Life 3 confirmed !
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@critialcloudkicker You're welcome! :p
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@thelastgherkin That sounds easier than making it up as I go along. But, I always worry about what is and isn't available to use in my own works....
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@scribus How'd you mean?
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@thelastgherkin Like @broniebrown mentioned the units from (I think it was) Battlestar Galactica; if they were made for that series, and I use their calendar or clocks, have I run afoul of intellectual property protections?
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@scribus I don't think that'd be legally punishable, but I think it may be more sort of... I don't know, less creative? Open to scrutiny and criticism?
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@scribus Use different names but use them along the same meaning. For example: Make a "year" have 1000 "days" and call the "year" Aglag and the days Yag. You can give your readers some time references how long they are in comparison to earth units in the addendum or footnotes. Just to make nerds happy or unhappy, depending how much they like overthinking stuff.
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