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Old January 4th, 2005, 11:24 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Mustex
Armageddon. I assumed it was backed up from somewhere.
I have a weird suspicion (I never remember to ask Richard) that he might have just used some math on a statement Adama makes about colonials living 200 yahrens (LPOTG) and divided that by 120 or 130 of our years (there's a thing in the old testament Bible that says that men would be limited to 120 or 130 year long lives, Adam lived 900+, I think the extra long lives went on until at least the flood.)
That would make a colonial yahren about 2/3 of an earth year. Most of the time earth times are used it is a writing mistake in the series.
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