Think we'd ever use anything similar to the Stardate system in the future?
By musicxrules
@musicxrules (143)
United States
6 responses
@musicxrules (143)
• United States
3 Sep 09
Yeah, I never want to try, either. I read a little bit about it, though, and the decimal number represented the time. That seems like a nice way to keep things short and simple.
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@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
4 Sep 09
The series brought in the stardate idea so as not to "date" the airing of the show..for a long time,it wasn't even mentioned in the show which future century it was set in! In theory,if you could travel at the speed of light,(Warp factor 1 in star trek) time passes more slowly,so that if you were gone from Earth 2 weeks on a warp 1 trip,MORE time than a Month would have passed on Earth by the time You got back..the Stardate was the show's explanation of how they were able to make a time reference that would be relevant wherever and however fast you travelled..
@musicxrules (143)
• United States
3 Sep 09
I'm sure if we actually use a similar system, they'll explain how it works. Right now, I'm not too sure about how it works, but I know that the decimal number represents the time of the day. :)
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
4 Sep 09
I think the star date is a convention, just like any other time measuring system.
Other SF novels/movies have their own dating, usually based on extremely important events, involving large masses of people. Like in Asimov's Foundation where they use the establishment of the Foundation as a relative zero and measure the following years as "Foundation Age" years.
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
28 Sep 09
I tried to use a stardate system for my journal one year but since I don't really understand how the numbers would translate into our own dating system it didn't work out all that well. If someone could it explain it to me fully I might try it again.
@merlinsorca (1118)
• United States
3 Sep 09
Maybe only when we're in space. In space we use starships and a "stardate" system would be appropriate to use. I'm sure that our dates in the future will be full of numbers.
@musicxrules (143)
• United States
3 Sep 09
Yes, that's true...but stardates were created especially because when traveling in space, if you spend one hour on one planet, that may equal to 2 hours on earth.
@ab48726 (156)
• United States
3 Feb 10
I sure hope so. If we journey beyond our own star system, our current dating system will have no meaning. We will have to come up with something that makes sense. It's like how most of the world started using imperial measurement units, now everyone is switching to metric because it makes more sense and we realize that what we thought was once the center of the universe is no longer so.
