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Codex Alera Spoilers / Re: Codex Alera Timeline
« on: November 23, 2009, 08:55:01 AM »Come up with your proof, or any rational justification to ignore probability, because until you do, you have nothing.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to read more interesting things; your passionate attempts to argue things that can't be argued have begun to bore me.
You want a "rational justification to ignore probability"? How about that this is a work of fantasy. It is pretty much common practice in fantasy fiction to assume time runs pretty much the same as our own. JB has no reason to make the measurement of time on Carna any different from our own, espescially without telling us. That would be pretty pointless. When he tells us that a character is a specific age, he expects us to know what that means. I doubt he's sitting at home cackling evilly over all of our misplaced assumptions about his characters' ages. To assume time a year in on Carna is different than a year on earth is just ridiculous in the context of the story.
That is my own "rational justification to ignore probability." No, it has nothing to do with science. Nothing to do with the speed at which the planet rotates, or goes around its sun. Sorry, it's as simple as that.