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A year in Mars is longer than the ones on Earth, so ppl living on Mars would celebrate less birthdays and technically die younger. (lemm.ee)

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[–] Underwear 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think for the foreseeable future, we'd likely still track age via Earth years for the sake of avoiding this kind of thing

This is actually how it's handled in the science fiction universes. Star Wars for example uses Corusant time as the standard across the galaxy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Belters in the expanse are bitter at their colonial ancestors for dictating how they measure time and space

[–] InverseParallax 3 points 1 year ago

Aye beratna, it's hard to feel we matter out here, the distances are so vast, it's hard to believe that we can make a difference.

[–] AbouBenAdhem 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even our sense of time comes from them. The time it takes the Earth to spin on its axis; the Earth to go once around the Sun. On Jupiter, you'd be celebrating your first birthday. It's hard to feel we matter out here, isn't it?