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How do you measure time on a tide locked planet?
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[QUOTE="DaveC426913, post: 6845041, member: 15808"] You've got a tougher hill to climb than I do. I need only demonstrate one path to plausibility. You need to close off [I]all[/I] paths in order to demonstrate [I]im[/I]plausibility. And yes, in the creative world of sci-fi/fantasy stories, [I]all things are possible until they shown to not be[/I]. Meta: The circuitous road to the conjecture at the heart of this thread (a culture that doesn't rely standardized timekeeping) is the [I]inspiration[/I] the OP might use to [I]write[/I] a good story. You don't write a story explaining things [I]already obvious[/I]. (Correction, you don't [U]sell[/U] a story explaining things already obvious); you write a story to lead readers on a path they might not have taken on their own.I'll add one "last" note: I wonder if we all have different visions of this alien culture. If you and Russ are envisioning a culture with flying cars and skyscrapers, I can see your point; It would be pretty hard to get to that level of technology without accurate time-keeping. But that's only the last century or two of Earth society. What about a culture that's equivalent to anything 2 centuries to 20 centuries behind us? Do you still think it is utterly implausible that a farming level society didn't ubiquitously use time-keeping as an aide? (Remember, their crops don't have to contend with day-night cycles, and seasonal changes are directly observable.) Time might be something for the scholars, but they might find it pointless in the fields and markets. [/QUOTE]
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