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Originally Posted by tompe
24 pages? That is way to little to see what a book is about. The book is rather pure idea based science fiction.
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Is there
any scientific idea in that book?
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Originally Posted by tompe
Also, how to count lifetime is only a convention and hour seems as good as any other way that you are used to. So I do not see why you think it is retarded.
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No, it's not. Considering the lifespan of human life there is no logical reason to select something as short as an hour to measure it. Hours should only be used to measure the age of beings with lifespans of maximum a few days. We are almost 9000 hours older every Earth year. If you would change the unit of measure for the age of a person to something independent of units that are related to only one planet, it would make more sense to make a new unit based on a biological consideration, like the fact that the cells in out bodies are renewed every 7 years.
Then there is the fact that we cannot discard the year as a unit of measure, since the distances between stars and galaxies are best described by lightyears. Even if an Earth year would not be the standard, the alternative should be in the in the same order of magnitude and it would still be appropriate length of time to describe the age of a person.