![]() the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems. ![]() But if you looked at it still more closely. Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. The frame corrections were incredibly complex - and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. ![]() The events in A Deepness in the Sky are impossible to pinpoint relative to Earth, but it does make reference to the Unix operating system and our first arrival on Earth's moon: Then, he spent "a bit more than a century" sitting in storage at Relay. So all we know is that Pham's ship had floated for an undisclosed length of time, and then spent 30,000 years traveling in the bottom-lugger. Most of that time was spent in a deep penetration of the Slow Zone, plus ten ![]() The ship is about thirty thousand years old. Here's the introduction of the ship that retrieved Pham Nuwen's ship from A Fire Upon the Deep:Ī dredge. ![]()
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