[Magdalen] Time is -- uh ....

[Sibyl Smirl]

Right.  I don't know either (but can imagine, because of the 
behind-the-scenes skull sweat of the writers), because it would depend 
on the particular requirements of the other planet.  SF writers either 
use near neighbor planets, like Mars, whose individual requirements like 
rotation and orbital period we _do_ know something about, or make up 
their own requirements, and the cause of those requirements, then work 
back the other way (or both ways) for the necessary adaptation.  As an 
example, read Heinlein's "Podkayne of Mars", in which the Mars-born 
human colonists regularly express things like human ages in Martian years.

On 11/2/15 3:17 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> Just what I meant.  Can't imagine how we'd do it. You don't know either.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>
>> On 11/2/15 2:36 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>>
>>> God help us if we find life on another planet. We would have a heck of a
>>> time fitting out time systems together....
>>>
>>
>> Don't read much Science Fiction, do you, Jim?  That's a regular
>> atmosphere/time-filler/world-building subject, digression, what-have-you.


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