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Where the Minutes are Longer: Time on Mars (theatlantic.com)
2 points by benaiah on Aug 12, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The second is an SI unit that you really can't change when doing science, so this approach means a minute isn't 60 seconds any more. I would've thought the "timeslip" approach from Kim Stanley Robinson's book (an extra ~40 minutes at midnight that aren't part of the hour before or after) would be more practical.




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