Trent Shipley wrote: > > Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space on 12 April 1961. So the date for > Contact is stuck at 2211 because it makes Contact happen 250 years after we > went into space. 2212 just won't do. > > Math logic looses to literary logic. > Whenever I find round periods like "250 years", it's convenient to accept them as approximations. 250 could be 251. BTW, where is it written that Contact happened 250 years after the first human flight?
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