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Oh?

“450 mothers ago” is roughly 363,500 megaseconds ago.

To be fair, measuring that in moms seems more intuitive.

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From your link, I rabbitholed to there and found gold

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It’s also about the speed of light in millifortnights (2.9e8), within a 4% error margin.

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I’d like mothers represented metric tbh, I’m in a meeting and not able to do the math rn but if anyone else can oblige …

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You can probably propose a new SI-base unit of “a mother”, but what does it measure?

“Metric” just essentially comes from “metering”. People confuse “metric” with “decimal”, which is sort of the point of the person I replied to. While metric time technically exists insofar as you just use seconds as the base unit, omit minutes and hours and just do SI-prefixes, the French did also try decimal time, but it was just horrible.

So if “mother” was the base unit and it measured something, in this instance time, the advent of agriculture was roughly four hectomothers ago. Or 0.4 kilomothers, if you will.

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Mother as a unit of time.

Ty

Edit the mother epoch presumably is the same epoch as all time, just … related to the mothers as above.

Ty

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Motheric

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