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Unix time - 15:30:08 UTC on Sun, 4 December 292,277,026,596

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At first i thought that year was the UNIX time stamp...

So Earth-centric! Won't someone think of the post-human Andromeda colonists?

CHEKOV: We do believe all planets have a sovereign claim to inalienable human rights. AZETBUR: Inalien... If only you could hear yourselves? 'Human rights.' Why the very name is racist. The Federation is no more than a 'homo sapiens' only club.

-Star Trek, Undiscovered Country.

You know, her anger was bullshit.

First off, the word inalienable means: "unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor."

Secondly, no shit, Earth came up with the idea of rights for humans well before space travel. So did other planets in the Federation. Checkov basically said, 'these rights we believe we all have, we believe we all have regardless of species.' Had we been talking to a Orion, he would have talked about Orion Rights. But, no, she just wanted to be angry.

And thirdly, "The Federation is no more than a 'homo sapiens' only club" is demonstrably false as the Federation was made up of many member races and earth was only one of several founding races.

The leadership of the federation at that time was almost entirely human. And I don't agree about the term "human rights". What if everyone used the term "European rights" even when talking about people on every other continent? It would be very awkward.

The obvious comparison that jumps to mind would be the word "mankind" in our (theoretically) post-sexist society.

"Considerably longer than the anticipated heat death of the universe."

Better?

You're only off by ~87 orders of magnitude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe#Tim...

that's when the last black hole evaporates due to the hawking radiation. the moment when all usable sources of thermodynamics potential are used up is much earlier.

> This is not anticipated to pose a problem, as this is considerably longer than the time it would take the Sun to theoretically expand to a red giant and swallow the Earth.

That's management speak right there. It's assumptions like this that will surely have future colonial developers cursing their earthbound predecessors.

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