Current age … in years
March 16, 2008 | 10:01 pmI was just filling out this graduate school survey when i was confronted with this nifty little question:
ya3ni seriously, did you really have to specify the unit of measure for this question ? Is it likely that someone will answer you in a unit other years? “well, i am about 280 months old”. Age in months is of course acceptable for babies, but i think that if you are in you’re twenty’s and you’re still measuring your age in months, then something is wrong here. How about i answer them in metric time units just out of spite 
that’ll be something.
Jasim
On March 16, 2008 | 10:28 pmLoool.
Well yeah, my age is 0.0000253 light years.
Lost Within
On March 16, 2008 | 10:58 pmLOL!
be5afo t5arbet
and Jasim , light years measure distance !
Leo K
On March 16, 2008 | 11:04 pmi am actually 599 581 594 seconds old :S, but most ppl know their ages in seconds
dreamessence
On March 17, 2008 | 6:28 amThat is actually quite funny! Interesting application
Hani Obaid
On March 17, 2008 | 1:18 pmI’m 16000000+ seconds old!
Jasim
On March 17, 2008 | 11:54 pmYou can easily convert it to time units. All you have to do is.. Uhm.. Look I’m really tired and sleepy, so good night.
Lost Within
On March 18, 2008 | 4:16 pmyea , I think we first convert to meters then find the time needed to travel these meters from the equation relating the speed of light to time and distance ! bas still, it is a unit of distance and not time !
za3tar
On March 18, 2008 | 8:23 pmYou actually can not convert light years to any time unit. Even with the procedure you mentioned before, the time needed for light to travel that distance is 1 year by the definition of “light year” :-).
It’s the same thing as talking about converting meters to minutes, .. it doesn’t work (unless you have a constant speed in your mind, then you talk about the time it takes to cover that distance, but this is not general).