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A standard "speaking" watch, but when the button is pressed instead of saying "2:10pm", it says "Two, plus ten of your Earth minutes" thus giving the illusion that the watch comes from outer space.
The Day The Earth Stood Still
http://www.cofc.edu/~marcellm/edsssnd.htm
Sound bites. [dalek, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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Well, I suppose it could tell the time in "Nimonian", so instead of saying "2:10pm" it would say "narccrht, trouckda graraght Earth kietsta" Unfortunately there is no Nimonian equivalent to the word Earth, so it has to say that part in English. |
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Captain's log, stardate, 723.5. Or not. Apparently, my watch has stopped working, so now I'm going to have to find out what the stardate system is actually based on... |
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As Rods said but in light years, or "0.5902777 of your planet's rotation time." |
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We have come to visit you in a timepiece, and with goodwill |
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This all assumes your average space alien cares about our arbitrary division of the world into time zones. |
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Wouldn't they just use "100011 gazillion seconds since the big bang" or "Time for lunch" or other more relevant measures? |
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Can we have a voice of our choice please. |
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Klaatu, Barrada, Necktie? |
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"The time is three sqruatkui - a Nimonian unit of time, similar to your earth hour - after midday." |
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God help us if it has a calendar function. |
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It would tick every 3 * 10^8 metres. |
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waugsqueke: according to my sources, "Klaatu Barada Nikto" is itself what you have to yell to prevent imminent destruction. (Though it's been a long time since I saw the film, so I cannot confirm that.) |
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[As an aside, it is thoroughly amazing that Google can correct the spelling of words in alien languages.] |
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I wanna be the first person on my block to own one. Croissant! |
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waugs, I always thought that "Deklato brosko" either meant "Careful man! You'll have someone's eye out with that thing!" or "Don't waste ammo on these puny earthlings, stupid!".
"Klaatu Barada Necktie" was used as a mispronounciation of the sacred words in 'Army of Darkness', thus leading to the raising of an army of undead. Recommended watching. |
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Thinking about this, a watch that spoke the time in Klingon would be really cool. And you could have a button you could push to make it say "Now is a good time for someone else to die !". |
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"Two, plus ten of your Earth minutes" sounds unrealistic, since our hours are every bit as arbitrary as our minutes are.
It should be more along the lines of "Two and one-sixth Terran hours", assuming it's AM, or "Fourteen and one-sixth Terran hours", assuming it's PM.
That aside, I've never been much for themed things, and especially unrealisticaly or poorly done ones. |
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