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We celebrate our birthdays every year, but why not our 1,000,000,000 seconds?

17 pointsby ptarjanover 13 years ago

11 comments

sbiskerover 13 years ago
If your site's copy asks that question, one of the first things I should see after submitting my birthday is, indeed, my age after 1,000,000 seconds. Seeing a list of everything I could be <i>besides</i> 1,000,000 seconds old confused the heck out of me. :)<p>That said, pretty cute. I like it. You could make a cute viral Facebook app out of something like this (though maybe with less nerdy milestones).
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v21over 13 years ago
Here's a even more beautiful variation I've seen : <a href="http://interconnected.org/home/more/lightcone/" rel="nofollow">http://interconnected.org/home/more/lightcone/</a><p>It takes a birth date and tells you when your personal light cone passes nearby stars.
georgemcflyover 13 years ago
Because no one knows the second they were born? I actually know the minute (0:21 EDT) but I suspect even that is unusual to know.
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DaveChildover 13 years ago
I made something similar a while ago ( <a href="http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/mathematical-anniversaries/" rel="nofollow">http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/mathematical-anniversaries/</a> ). I never did work out why these things aren't more popular. Might I suggest adding ical?
robertkover 13 years ago
Scrolling down is kind of depressing.
arsover 13 years ago
That is a REALLY irritating method of entering a date! To go back a decade, you have to go to january of the first year in the dropdown, click the previous month button.<p>Can't I just type in a date?
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ptarjanover 13 years ago
Let me know if you guys celebrate any other nerdy dates.
synnikover 13 years ago
I'm 39. My birth year is not even selectable in the drop-down. I had to go to 1974, then scroll back 2 years. Not exactly a positive experience.
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duncanjover 13 years ago
I'd like to know my xE6-iversaries, but this site only does 10^6,10^7,...
zerostar07over 13 years ago
Both are crazy. Why would anyone want celebrate being closer to death? Plus, as a nerd, I wouldn't choose an arbitrary unit of time like seconds.
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jcampbell1over 13 years ago
It seems to be bitten by a 2038 bug. I asked for a reminder for my 100th birthday and got an error.