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 Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:21 pm
What exactly do they mean by days?
Considering they aren't on a planet, by what measure?
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:29 pm
Assuming you mean humans in orbit, they still use the Earth day. After all, they're only visitors to space. This does border on another question I've oft wondered, though. In television shows where an alien gives his or her age *cough*, by what planet do they base said years?
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:51 am
Jennivieve Assuming you mean humans in orbit, they still use the Earth day. After all, they're only visitors to space. This does border on another question I've oft wondered, though. In television shows where an alien gives his or her age *cough*, by what planet do they base said years? I believe Stargate have often given the local amount of "Winters" people have lived, the few times it's been mentioned. I think there was one guy who've asked for a conversion and said how many human years he's been living (though; I do suspect the days on that planet may not have been quite the same length as on Earth). 
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:00 pm
By Earth days for Humans.
The universal translator takes care of the rest, assuming it knows plenty about an alien language.
If it doesn't,
"we'll be stuck here for 2 days"
it doesn't know their measurement system yet, so it literally gets translated as days, to which the alien will respond;
"days?"
However, if it does know their measurement systems, it can convert them.
"2 kilometers"
is what a Human would say, but based on the alien's distance measurement (or time) they would HEAR
"1.7 Killicams"
and know how far it is as it's been converted to appropriate amounts in their measurement system.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 5:38 am
They probably synchronized their time with Earth and ignore temporal someshit.
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 11:16 am
i've always wondered the same thing! like my teachers talk about it and im like BUT HOW?!? emotion_jawdrop
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