TIL: Today I Learned

[Commodore]

TIL: I've been alive for 0.00000013713127591931 galactic years.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

TIL: I've been alive for 0.00000013713127591931 galactic years.

Looks like you'll have a long time to wait before your first birthday.

Just think: If you lived on the average exoplanet that's been found, you'd have birthdays much more often. One of those planets takes only 9 days to orbit its parent star.

 

[Zkribbler]

Happy 0.00000013713127591931th birthday to you.
Happy 0.00000013713127591931th birthday to you.
Happy 0.00000013713127591931th birthday, dear Commodore.
Happy 0.00000013713127591931th birthday to you.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Hey! Doesn't this site have rules regarding underage posters? wait 'till the mods find out that the OT is frequented bay a bunch of 0.000000137-something year olds!

 

[Arakhor]

A galactic year lasts for 100 billion billion solar years?? (1x 10^20)

 

[W|M]

Galaxies are big

 

[Lexicus]

A galactic year lasts for 100 billion billion solar years?? (1x 10^20)

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by galactic year, but the amount of time for the Sun to orbit the galactic center (only thing I have ever heard referred to as a 'galactic year') is estimated at 225 million Earth years, not 100 billion.

 

[Arakhor]

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by galactic year, but the amount of time for the Sun to orbit the galactic center (only thing I have ever heard referred to as a 'galactic year') is estimated at 225 million Earth years, not 100 billion.

I was working with the decimal provided by Commodore.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I think you forgot to carry the 3 or something...

 

[Manfred Belheim]

TIL: Commodore is younger than I thought. I had you pegged for more like 0.00000018 Galactic Years.

 

[Commodore]

I was working with the decimal provided by Commodore.

I got that number from this site. You just put in your birthday (and birth hour if you know it) and it lists your current age in a whole bunch of different units of measurement for time from seconds all the way up to exaseconds.

So by using that site, you could probably work backwards and find out exactly when my birthday is if you really, really wanted to know.

 

[Arakhor]

I did, thanks. The date format is in American though. They could have used computer dating, at least.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I did, thanks. The date format is in American though. They could have used computer dating, at least.

Linux and GPS epochs are annoying. I have to deal with them all the time.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

TIL that "most everyone" (for example) is considered incorrect even by American standards! I always thought it was just another one of those weird things that you consider to be correct, like "could care less", or taking u's out of everything.

 

[Takhisis]

Linux and GPS epochs are annoying. I have to deal with them all the time.

What's your problem with Linux?

(I use it everyday, but I'm guessing you're using it for satellites which isn't the same).

 

[Cutlass]

TIL that pegacorns are a thing,

Apparently neither Pegasus nor unicorns are special enough for some people.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

What's your problem with Linux?

(I use it everyday, but I'm guessing you're using it for satellites which isn't the same).

It's nothing wrong with Linux, it's having to convert between all the different time formats frequently that gets super annoying.

 

[Takhisis]

Don't you have some sort of universal standard? (I'm asking out of genuine ignorance and have found out that the entire world is a learning opportunity).

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Don't you have some sort of universal standard? (I'm asking out of genuine ignorance and have found out that the entire world is a learning opportunity).

Nope, that's the problem. We use all the time standards across different situations and applications. In a given satellite there might be a dozen different systems that require time keeping and they may use different programming languages and come from different manufacturers. It gets very complicated quickly.

Truth be told it's not a huge deal but it is annoying.

 

[Michkov]

TIL that pegacorns are a thing,

Apparently neither Pegasus nor unicorns are special enough for some people.

It's a mutant Narwhal, now with an extra set of extremities!!!