Comments | the_s_guy: Ramblings on vorns and breems

the_s_guy

Ramblings on vorns and breems

Nov 07, 2006 23:06

Vorns and breems are two fictional units of time used in Transformers media, or were back in the 80s. They were originally just made up pretty much on the spot by the writers, with a vorn being around 83 years long and a breem about 8.3 minutes.

So I was playing around with them a couple of years back, ( and noticed something odd. )

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dvandom November 7 2006, 15:22:10 UTC

Perhaps an astrosecond is 1/48 of a breem? Or 1/482, with 1/48 being something else.

koilungfish November 7 2006, 15:50:59 UTC

Dreamwave, in their infinite somethings, decided that 1 breem = 1000 astroseconds [MTME 8, back page], which makes 1 astrosecond about 0.498 seconds.

Eitherhow, I'd put joors [from Magnificent Six] down as the best candidate for the 48 breems and orns [lunar months, from somewhere in Matrix Quest] as a possible for the 48x48 breems ... and now I need to go and revise my fanon calender, ow.

giri_guy November 7 2006, 17:08:24 UTC

Geez. I don't even know all the conversion factors.

koilungfish November 7 2006, 18:22:43 UTC

What kind of a robot *are* you?

oasis_pink_peng November 8 2006, 02:17:53 UTC

Pretty cool.

nemi_chan July 26 2007, 01:23:52 UTC

the only way this could be cooler is if it was exactly 42.

you want to know what else is intresting about a breem?

8.317 light minites is one Astronomical Unit, which is about equal to the semi-major axis of earth's orbit (we're in an eliptical orbit, so that's the longest 'radius').

There's not much variation allowed in that distance for water/life to form, and if you go with the organic core of cybertron (which I kinda hate, but still)...

So you have ANOTHER evolutionary/enviromental base for a breem, perbaps one breem was the semi-major axis of cybertron before it got knocked out of orbit. Or even it's radius, period. They're robotic, perhaps they had a (nearly) perfect circular orbit.

the_s_guy July 26 2007, 10:47:35 UTC

Um. Well spotted. Good point.

seienchan November 18 2007, 02:21:09 UTC

That is really, really cool. I'm impressed!

How many breems to a vorn now? 5,308,416.
Which is 48,
times 48,
times 48,
times 48,
exactly.

I read that and went AAAHHH WOW.

Then I read on and saw

Those of you with an inner math geek will now be going "squee!"

I guess this confirms it, huh. :B