#year0 — Public Fediverse posts

Here's some interesting thought: what if we would switch to a more "neutral" definition of #year 0?

In our culture (which is not exclusive), we use the miscalculated year of birth of a person whose real existence is not guaranteed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_0

We've got the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units (except some weird countries like the USA) which is using physical/objective properties to define the units of time, length, weight and so forth.

So what if we would use a similar basis for our #year0 in a hypothetical future?

Something that affects all #humankind, which can be proven to happen at a specific day/year.
And which offers a practical scale (max. 4 digit years for today).
Not related to some obscure cult/religion/person.

Based on some astronomic event? Any historical disaster? Any historic human achievement/invention/discovery/...?

What would that be? 🤔

Reply your idea(s) and boost for a wider audience.

Here's some interesting thought: what if we would switch to a more "neutral" definition of #year 0?

In our culture (which is not exclusive), we use the miscalculated year of birth of a person whose real existence is not guaranteed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_0

We've got the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units (except some weird countries like the USA) which is using physical/objective properties to define the units of time, length, weight and so forth.

So what if we would use a similar basis for our #year0 in a hypothetical future?

Something that affects all #humankind, which can be proven to happen at a specific day/year.
And which offers a practical scale (max. 4 digit years for today).
Not related to some obscure cult/religion/person.

Based on some astronomic event? Any historical disaster? Any historic human achievement/invention/discovery/...?

What would that be? 🤔

Reply your idea(s) and boost for a wider audience.