Space travellers can run but they can't hide

[DaveC426913]

Finally spotted myself a space traveller, back from a relativistic tour.

No one ever suspects the doctor's office is actually paying attention...

 

[DrGreg]

The names are blurred so...

Is that the woman called "Bright",
who can travel much faster than light,
who went out one day
in a relative way
and came back on the previous night?

 

[berkeman]

Finally spotted myself a space traveller, back from a relativistic tour.

Nah, my mom was 39 for many, many years. All you had to do was ask her.

 

[Jarvis323]

Finally spotted myself a space traveller ...

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Or 4 of them.

 

[DaveC426913]

The spooky part about this is that their ages are not self-reported. They are derived programmatically from their birth date.

(And yet they are not in error.)

 

[Office_Shredder]

It took 3 years for the database query to complete. That person really was 39 when their age was computed, and the other person really was 42 when their age was computed.

 

[DaveC426913]

You're half right, but the data is accurate.

 

[Filip Larsen]

I guess the story has a sad morale for one of them?

 

[DrGreg]

You're half right, but the data is accurate.

Could it be that the age is only recalculated on the person's birthday, which is 29 February?

 

[DaveC426913]

Simpler. Pt. #2 died 3 years ago.

 

[mfb]

Could it be that the age is only recalculated on the person's birthday, which is 29 February?

I know OCT 31 = DEC 25, but Oct 18 = Feb 29 is new to me.

 

[DrGreg]

I know OCT 31 = DEC 25, but Oct 18 = Feb 29 is new to me.

Good catch. I couldn't see the wood for the trees there.