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		mLuby on Sept 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No One Ever Saw the Snow Cruiser Again (2019) If we're using 5 digits, add 10K years: we're in year 12021 of this Holocene calendar. (Happy palindrome year!) 0 is pre-history, some of the very first permanent construction. An 8min video by Kurzgesagt on it: https://youtu.be/czgOWmtGVGs

garmaine on Sept 9, 2021 [–]

That’s the Holocene calendar, not the Long Now date writing tradition.

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