Comment on xkcd #3110: Global Ranking

davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Chances are you shared that position with someone else.

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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not if it’s measured with a fractional part.

      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.

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      • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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’.

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• y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You were in first for “youngest person” though!

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