(thing) by dg Sat Sep 09 2000 at 17:59:53

Unit of measurement equal to one million current Terran years. Used in Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime and other far-future SF.

I've always wondered why far future science fiction always seems to use measurements that are based on how things work on Earth, but I guess that it's probably just one of those things.

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