<story><title>Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our Nearby Universe</title><url>https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1749437</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>88840-8855</author><text>What I just realised - imagine we are living in the future and have colonized distant planets. We might need a new tense that indicates that an event has already happened on that distant planet, but due to speed of light limitations, this information has not yet arrived at the observer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diegoperini</author><text>Turkish has such flavors of past tenses. They are called &amp;quot;observed past&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;learned past&amp;quot; tenses.&lt;p&gt;As the names imply, one is used when you witness the event. The other is used when you forget that you witnessed or you heard it from someone else.</text></comment>
<story><title>Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our Nearby Universe</title><url>https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1749437</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>88840-8855</author><text>What I just realised - imagine we are living in the future and have colonized distant planets. We might need a new tense that indicates that an event has already happened on that distant planet, but due to speed of light limitations, this information has not yet arrived at the observer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glandium</author><text>Wasn&amp;#x27;t there a paragraph or two about making up a tense for that in the Hitchhiker&amp;#x27;s Guide to the Galaxy?&lt;p&gt;Edit: found it: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sites.google.com&amp;#x2F;site&amp;#x2F;h2g2theguide&amp;#x2F;Index&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;956236&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sites.google.com&amp;#x2F;site&amp;#x2F;h2g2theguide&amp;#x2F;Index&amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F;956236&lt;/a&gt; (it was about time travel, close enough)</text></comment>