Madrigal

Presumably, if he lands in any country that actually respects international law (which is a fair few) he will be arrested.

It’ll severely limit his ability to travel internationally. Plus sometimes it’s just about making a statement.

Modern capitalism in a nutshell. Establish a monopoly through any means, then exploit the hell out of that monopoly to become richer and more powerful.

And the log files show the system switched to manual control precisely 3ms before the explosion, every time.

Imagine thinking that’ll be the biggest date-related computing problem for a galactic society.

If you really want to make programmers despair, point out:

• massive variations in day, month and year lengths on different worlds.
• some worlds may not have “months” (no moons, or many moons).
• ambiguous definition of “year” for multi-star systems.
• days may be longer than years (hello Venus).
• communication latency across interstellar distances.
• tine dilation.

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