Calculates time dilation

“Well, I don’t get the same kind of Tinker fugues you do, and this crap is just making my head hurt.”

“Thinker headache?” he asked.

I shook my head.

“It’s just… dull. I mean, there’s conclusions I can make about atmospheric data, and about how that interacts with the changes in the land masses. I can look at the pictures, and use the data to figure out how far back that world is and what kind of time lag it has.”

We had programs to estimate the time period based on the positions of the stars in the sky. For periods of over a hundred million years, that was useless, but by that point we were able to notice statistically significant time lags in the radio transmissions from the probes, and we could use that to estimate how long it had been.

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Discovered