Because then it would be 'a;imodo not qazimodo.

I don’t think that was a malfunction…
That was ‘working as intended’.

Almost happened to Frank Rubio when the radiator blew on his ride.

You could make a religion out of this.

Obligatory Manley analysis.

It’d be easier to train clamp scientists to static fire than to train rocket scientists to clamp.

wouldn’t changing it just end up performative

Exactly. Sidereal time does get rid of time zones and leap years, but it’s still referenced to a single physical object and relies on a arbitrary choice of start point. So it doesn’t create some perfect cosmic time standard.

The international date line doesn’t help since that’s just 180° offset from Greenwich itself.

The point of standards is that they can be followed by everyone. The AD/BC epoch is fine. The Greenwich meridian is fine. UTC is fine. Changing them would cause so much disruption that it cannot be worth it.

Daylight savings can go die in a ditch though.

doesn’t change

Citation needed.

Do you use leap seconds to stay in sync with earth’s rotation? When would they be applied? How would spacefarers be notified of these updates?

Also, what meridian do you choose for this ‘universal’ time? Is it still Greenwich? Because that’s peak colonial baggage.

I thought one thruster has been permanently disabled now? Not that that’s a major problem, but it does eat into their redundancy somewhat.

How will they filter it out? If they just don’t mirror anything with ‘forbidden’ terms, we can poison repos to prevent them being mirrored. If they try to tamper with the repo histories then they’ll end up breaking a load of stuff that relies on consistent git hashes.