“To tell the time using a sundial you’d need calculus.”
— NASA discovers a “Tatooine-like” planet orbiting a binary star system. I’m now concocting a SF story about a planet in a binary system where a Bronze Age civilization, out of necessity, discovers calculus millennia before their Earth counterparts, subsequently taking to the stars and conquering less-advanced planets in solitary star systems. Actually, I think I just recreated the backstory to Stargate.
(Source: idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com)
