#epochs

[wiirocku]

1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 (NASB1995) - Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

[purcaholic]

In the tranquil mosaic of the low poly realm, history whispers its tales through angular silhouettes, each carefully chiseled facet a shard of time's crystalline memory. Soft pastel hues paint the tapestry of epochs past, where ancient echoes drift across faceted hills and polygonal rivers, murmuring serenely beneath a veiled sky. The moments of yesteryear, frozen in geometric grace, dance silently in the gentle breeze of remembrance, inviting the soul to wander through the tranquil labyrinth of what once was.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

pick one?

Paleocene

Eocene

Oligocene

Miocene

Pliocene

Pleistocene

Holocene

Voting ended onJun 26, 2023

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Tumblr is both timely and timeless. There are clearly defined epochs (compare 2007 to 2013 to 2020 to now), but when you get down to scale of individual blogs, the relationship between mutuals is nebulous. Did I start following you this year? Last year? Five years ago? Did I find you, or did you find me? We're mutuals, and we share other mutuals, so did I introduce them to your orbit, or did you introduce them to mine? We've either been friends since time immemorial or last Halloween. We've never met, but you're my closest confidant, closer than people I've known offline since childhood. I know you're between the ages of 17 and 65, but I have no idea where. You've been here since before dashcon, I joined after the porn ban, we are from different eras but there's no culture shock between us. We are all crabs in the same bucket.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, how long are arcs and chords from the 2005 IDW universe?

Dear Temporally Triumphant,

While I've previously talked about the Gregevorian calendar, the universe you refer to used a variant of the Jarugarian calendar. Knowing that if I don't explain it in detail now, I'll only cause people to ask, I figure I should cover the full range of units it employs.

In that system, time was separated into Epochs, Annuli, Cycles, Chords, and Arcs.

An Epoch was an irregular length of time, usually marked and named only after enough scholars believe it has become established anyway. However, one of particular importance—the Silver Epoch—was named by Nominus Prime, who had discovered a large supply of sparks preserved in photonic crystals. Seeing this as a chance to create a new golden age, he began what was known as the Silver Harvest, the largest population boom in Cybertronian history. This was around five million years before that universe became known to your scholars, and the Epoch later was renamed the Uprising, as it marked the start of Megatron's rise, even if he wasn't created until twelve annuli into the Epoch.

An Annulus lasts a little longer than a Terran year—approximately thirteen months. These are listed as numbers within each epoch, and each epoch can last many thousands of annuli.

A Cycle comes next, the most well known unit of time. There are eighteen cycles within each annulus, and for most events, knowing the cycle and annulus is a good enough point of reference. Each cycle lasts around three Terran weeks, and is sometimes called a Cybertronian Week.

A Chord comes to roughly fifty hours, and is the length of a Cybertronian day in this universe. There are ten in each cycle.

An Arc lasts nearly an Earth hour, and naturally there are fifty in each chord. They can also be divided into a hundred centi-arcs, the smallest unit typically used in the Jarugarian system. Arcs and centi-arcs are usually only used to record events where extreme precision is needed.

[fieriframes]

[3 images. A person sitting at a table eating food. Mauricio Taricco et al. sitting at a table. A close up of a laptop. Captions: Other cometary mass extinctions in other epochs seem likely. If true, this would mean that comets have been the bringers... ...both of life and death.]

[observationsofayoungboomer]

The Confusion of Eras

It’s funny how most of us seem to compartmentalize events.  We studied the revolutionary war, the civil war, the old west, world war I etc. etc. and it seems like they all happen in a vacuum – like the people that participated were hatched at the beginning of the event and evaporate when it’s over then we go to the next era.  It blows my mind to think that some people who were alive during the civil war may have been alive during the revolutionary war – they would be old, alright, but still there………..at the very least some of them would have remembered George Washington when he was alive.…..and many people who were alive during WW1 would have been alive during the civil war – very possibly fought in it. And definitely some who were fighting Indians in the old west would have been very much alive during WWI – a few even alive during WWII.  People aren’t supposed to cross epochs like that!!  

[ochwat]

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