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lpghatguy
1640 days ago
2^64 seconds is 584.9 billion years. I think it's pretty safe to kick the can nearly 600 billion years down the road.
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masklinn
1640 days ago
It's signed so only 2^63-1s, or 292 billion years.
'bout the same as tomorrow really, better do nothing, for in the end all is dust.
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jandrese
1639 days ago
In retrospect we should have made it unsigned, but set the epoch at the Big Bang.
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drran
1640 days ago
2^63 is just 292 billion years. Beware.
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mlyle
1639 days ago
~1/4th to 1/40th the length of time where star formation will still be possible. Woefully insufficient.
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mjevans
1639 days ago
Ruler of great size, less useful when measured aspects are a pile of disconnected threads rather than a canvas that is mostly shared and mostly distorted the same way.
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'bout the same as tomorrow really, better do nothing, for in the end all is dust.