megayear n.
a million years
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1935 Night in Astounding Stories Oct. 20/2
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John W. Campbell, Jr.
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With what we have learned in the uncounted dusty megayears since, we might have been able to save him.
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1963 Territory in Analog Science Fact-Science Fiction June 64/2
Poul Anderson
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Now humans, the experts tell me, got started way back when, as ground apes that turned carnivore when the forests shrank up in Africa for lots of megayears.
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1986 Marooned in Realtime 19
Vernor Vinge
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I was born about ten megayears after the Singularity—the Extinction, Juan calls it.
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1994 Ring (1996) . 80
Stephen Baxter
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Sam wants to go to Tau Ceti and build houses under the light of a new sun; the dark possibilities of five megayears hence couldn’t be of less interest to him.
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1995 Brightness Reef (1996) 172
David Brin
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Now let’s see if encephalization has changed during the last megayear.
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2015 Saturn Run l. 373
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John Sandford
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I imagine that millennia, or megayears ago, when the face-to-face contactees got into their planet[-]killing disagreements, they didn’t much concern themselves with exactly which members of the other species had committed the unforgivable offense.
Research requirements
any evidence 1935
Earliest cite
John W. Campbell, Jr. 'Night'
Research History
Mike Christie submitted a 1966 cite from a reprint of Poul Anderson's 1963 "Territory".Ralf Brown submitted a cite from a 1991 reprint of Vernor Vinge's 1986 "Marooned in Realtime".
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