You were in first for “youngest person” though!
Comment on xkcd #3110: Global Ranking
davidgro@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
At one point I was ranked dead last in the entire world for number of seconds lived.
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Comment on xkcd #3110: Global Ranking
davidgro@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
At one point I was ranked dead last in the entire world for number of seconds lived.
You were in first for “youngest person” though!
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Chances are you shared that position with someone else.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Not if it’s measured with a fractional part.
I wonder if the rate is high enough and the distanced large enough that relativity could make it so people on opposite ends of the world disagree on which baby was born first. Then again, birth takes a lot longer than a second and it’s not really possible to pinpoint an exact timestamp when the baby is born and wasn’t previously.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In that case I’d expect the wording to be “time lived”, not “number of seconds lived”.
I don’t think the time someone is born is registered that precisely anywhere, so it would probably be very hard to get anyone to agree on it.
davidgro@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You know I thought of how to word that better, but wasn’t sure I could convey what I meant clearly enough. I should have just used something like ‘time lived’.