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In reply to Can't believe the definition of UNIX Time was so unfixably bad we as a society decided we had to abolish UTC instead (Th

We talk about the problems with technical solutions to social problems. Well, this is a social solution to a technical problem

Can't believe the definition of UNIX Time was so unfixably bad we as a society decided we had to abolish UTC instead

(The CGPM has voted to abolish the leap second)

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In reply to Short story idea: an astronomer many billions of years into the future muses over the fact that they know other galaxies

Sometimes I think about how the universe can be a profoundly lonely place and yet also hauntingly beautiful

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Short story idea: an astronomer many billions of years into the future muses over the fact that they know other galaxies once existed from many records and photos, but all evidence is now gone from the night's sky

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