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MobileTechGuy@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

I think that guy was eating the glue

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I think that guy was eating the glue

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MobileTechGuy@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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    There is a fun fun sci-fi book called “Deepness in the Sky” by Vernor Vinge. The Humans use epoch time with si prefixed Seconds for time,

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      That is a great book. Did you read the sequels?

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        Did you say sequels??? I’ve read A Fire Upon the Deep and a Deepness in the Sky. There are others???

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          Children of the Sky too.

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            I’ll have to check that out. I’ve enjoyed some of Vinge’s other work as well. The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime, and Rainbow’s End were all pretty great reads as I recall (been awhile).

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      On the gripping hand, the Brownies could make way better clocks than we could.

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