Longer days.

[Tony]

Kalgor,,Garv and myself,,are looking for some 48hour days, If anyone knows where to find some,,,let us know.

[Plato]

Well according to Einstein, time is our 4th dimension. So all you have to do, is find out how to enter into that dimension! I would recommend: start off by watching the Back to The Future series…those movies should have some good pointers on how to get started! ;) Or, I recommend asking some Christian Science follower, they seem to have some insight as to how time works, and might be able to give you some pointers on how to perceive time…


BTW: If you do figure it out, let me know…:lol:

[Tony]

I don't have a DeLorean or a Flux capacitor. I do know how to perceive time,,,but not how to increase it. The problem as I see it as regards to the 4th dimention,,is the disruption of the time line. If you spent 24 hours of the day working,,then went back 24 hours,,,the work you had achieved would no longer be done,,,so you would have to start again. Its more an extention to time thats required,,,not time travel.

[lepperlemming]

Wow, thats quite in depth, to get 48 hours work done in a 24 hour day, merely hire a bunch of magic pixies, prefably cobblers, that will do all your work for you, allowing you more time to enjoy lifes benefits (ie free porn) instead of having to admin the 24 hours away. OR get some great drugs that will make a day feel like 48 hours, however this may decrease your work output.

[LysDexia]

I say we get rid of Thursdays and divide that 24 hours up and give them to the rest of the days. Sure, it doesn't give you the 48 hours you want, but another four hours is better than nothing.

[Spike Spiegel]

Speed, lots and lots of speed. smoked, snorted, ingested in pill form, up to you, but like i said lots and lots of speed.

[bada bing]

Speed, lots and lots of speed. smoked, snorted, ingested in pill form, up to you, but like i said lots and lots of speed.
That also results in amphetamine poisioning, days of hallucinations and a tendancy to think crazy thoughts like your balls are growing out of your chin, and your friends are currently on their way round to your house to kill you..

Believe me, it does :(

[Tony]

I say we get rid of Thursdays and divide that 24 hours up and give them to the rest of the days. Sure, it doesn't give you the 48 hours you want, but another four hours is better than nothing.
The problem there being,,,its not just one day x 48 hours,,its a continuous days x 48hours,,robbing from peter to pay paul gives you an extra 4 hours per day -minus 24 hours in the week.
Spikes idea might make you happier while you work,,,but if you have a car that is limited to 30mph,,,popping an extra something in its tank will give it an extra turn of speed for a short while,,,,then something has to give out.

[vodkaboy2000]

The problem can be solved by using the time dilation effect. the faster that you travel the more time is dilated for the traveller.
So, if you were to travel at close to the speed of light for 48 experienced hours, when you got back, less than 48 hours would have been experienced on earth.

Now how to experiance 48 hours while the rest of the world only experianced 24, i dont have that calculation to hand!

[Tony]

If you travelled at 186.000 miles per second, (The speed of light) theoretically, time would stand still. You'd have to travel at 279.000 miles per second (One and a half times the speed of light) for 48 hours to gain an extra 24 hours. Taking into account the time it would take to reach that speed (not possible) and then slow down,,that extra 24 hours has been reduced to zero.

[Meghuntress]

Wish I could be of any help, but good luck with this, and let me know what you figure out! ;)

[oblrman]

When I was in the army we took pills to stay up for 48 hours. Problem was you couldn't recall much of anything after your 24 hour recovery sleep.....

[techken]

The problem can be solved by using the time dilation effect. the faster that you travel the more time is dilated for the traveller.
So, if you were to travel at close to the speed of light for 48 experienced hours, when you got back, less than 48 hours would have been experienced on earth.

Now how to experiance 48 hours while the rest of the world only experianced 24, i dont have that calculation to hand!


Ya got that backwards. If you travel near the speed of light, the dilation effect increases. That means that for every minute you spend near light-speed, hundreds or thousands of years go by in the rest of the universe.

[techken]

If you travelled at 186.000 miles per second, (The speed of light) theoretically, time would stand still. You'd have to travel at 279.000 miles per second (One and a half times the speed of light) for 48 hours to gain an extra 24 hours. Taking into account the time it would take to reach that speed (not possible) and then slow down,,that extra 24 hours has been reduced to zero.

You would need Star Trek warp engines with the associated Gravity leveling systems to do it with out being turned into a 10 million mile long red smear (Near instantanious acceleration and deceleration)

Scotty! Get those engines back on-line!

Aye, Capn. I'm workin' on 'em!

[Tony]

Nothing like bouncing off the bulkheads for the whole Journey.

Is he OK Bones.

He's dead Jim,,,but not as we know it.

[LiGhTzOwT]

go to my college.....

[Duwurf]

Don't know what U guys are on about. Use magic!! Duh...

[techken]

Oh, hey, why didn't I think of that! You need that thing from the Harry Potter movies that Hermine (sp?) uses to be able to be in 2 classes at the same time.

Maybe if you talk nice to her, Prof. McGonnigle will give you guys a set to use?

[bonsaitree]

If you travelled at 186.000 miles per second, (The speed of light) theoretically, time would stand still. You'd have to travel at 279.000 miles per second (One and a half times the speed of light) for 48 hours to gain an extra 24 hours. Taking into account the time it would take to reach that speed (not possible) and then slow down,,that extra 24 hours has been reduced to zero.

Thats only assuming that you accelerate to that speed and then immediately begin the negative acceleration back to 0. If you stay at 279000 mps for an extended period of time then you would constantly gain time which could easily be used to acrue extra time. But if you think about it we still haven't figured out how to move through time, so you're technically still not GAINING time you're simply slowing time down for yourself....which isn't really all that useful.

[cammer_guy112]

Its simple if you think about it... simply travel around the world and modify EVERY clock you find to move at half the speed... causing one hour to take two hours to go by, but since every clock is lieing, nobody would notice... of course, you would first need a way to stop time, in order to change all clocks befor someone notices... I sugest you watch the movie "Time Stopers" and get your hands on one of their watches... good luck!

[Tony]

If I could stop time,,,I wouldn't need to alter clocks,,,just get the work done and start the time again, but as that isn't going to happen,,,keep thinking

[Doctor_Gonzo]

Talk to George Bush about it. He's convinced himself that: tobacco doesn't necessarily cause cancer; all that business of Katrina wiping out New Orleans, Biloxi and the Gulf Coast was just a bunch of liberal press hoopla; his daughters are still virgins a pure as the driven snow; people actually BELIEVE his bullshit about "freedom being on the march" in Iraq. If Exxon or Halliburton or the Carlisle people could PROFIT from a 48-hour day I bet he could make it happen.

[Tony]

The only thing Bush would do is get someone to make a 48hour clock that ran twice as fast as a 24 hour one,,,,,thereby gaining nothing,,,,which seems to be the story of his life

[Issac Hunt]

What a thread! Ihave been enthralled to say the least!!

Kudos men, kudos

[Doctor_Gonzo]

The only thing Bush would do is get someone to make a 48hour clock that ran twice as fast as a 24 hour one,,,,,thereby gaining nothing,,,,which seems to be the story of his lifeMy GOD man! You've got the VIBE!!! You GET IT! Incredible. . .

You could always up your medications so the days go by slower. :D

[Tony]

If I did that,,I'd get nothing done at all

[johnny0]

No, no, no. You got it alllll wrong! What we need to do is to slow down the rotation of the earth so that it only spins once every 48 hours - that's how we'll get our 48 hour day! I suggest getting everyone one on the planet to run east at the same exact time to see if we can't spin this sucker a lil slower!!

We could call it the 6 billion man march!

[Tony]

Spinning the world slower would lessen the Gravitational force,,,so we would spend more time off the ground than on it,,,everything then would take twice as long to do,,,so 48 hours come back to 24

[MasterD]

Garfield hates Mondays.. eliminate Mondays from the week (I can hear the cheers now :P) and your days will be 3.4 hours longer.. it ain't 48 hours, but hell an extra 3 hours in bed? Who would complain? :P

[Tony]

We know about Garfield and Mondays
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But we're only gaining extra sleep with your theory,,,and you can't work when you're asleep

[Doctor_Gonzo]

Hey, take a look at a Jewish Calendar and you'll realize that those hip Gregorians back in the day PROVIDED us with longer days. :D

[Tony]

Not long enough lol

[annunaki]

i may be a little late to the topic... but i have a friend selling a delorean for $5000 USD. Runs fine, a little noisy though. really good cosmetic condition. He bought it without the front bumper, then later purchased the bumper... but never put it on.

somthing to think about.

good luck with the flux capacitor.

[techken]

i may be a little late to the topic... but i have a friend selling a delorean for $5000 USD. Runs fine, a little noisy though. really good cosmetic condition. He bought it without the front bumper, then later purchased the bumper... but never put it on.
somthing to think about.
good luck with the flux capacitor.

Oooo, I think I have a spare mini-reactor to generate the 1.21 Gigiwatts of power needed by the Flux Capacitor! :D

[Dexterous]

Antarctica has 6 month days and 6 month nights. Its not 48 hours but for some its even better

[techken]

Antarctica has 6 month days and 6 month nights. Its not 48 hours but for some its even better

Have you ever tried to stay awake for 6 months? Or even worse, SLEEP for 6 months? Gotta keep getting up, going to the bathroom all the time. Really sucks. :D

[emrys]

This is like the best post ever!

[Tony]

Give us an answer to the 48 hour day issue then,,,,before we need 60 hours instead

[s9elsen]

The town I live in advertise 48 hour days and 2 sundays per week. Furthermore there's an all week weekend and holiday all year round. Lookin forward to seeing you.

[Tony]

Some advert..of only it were true

[Cole]

I don't mean to sound crude or anything, but if you have one person and one day:

the person probably would spend 12 hours working, 12 hours doing sleep eating and personal stuff, so to get a 48 hour day, you would have to technically double the person :/

so you could do a 48 hour day, if you doubled the man(or woman) power you have :/

Cole

[Tony]

Nice thought. But Garv ,Kalgor and myself,, run a total of around 26 sites., the majority of the work is done by ourselves and can't be undertaken by others. You only need one problem on one site and you can take hours sorting it out,,which again can't be done by others.
So the three of us need the extra hours as the work load can't be passed on to others.

[gatsby]

I don't have a DeLorean or a Flux capacitor. I do know how to perceive time,,,but not how to increase it. The problem as I see it as regards to the 4th dimention,,is the disruption of the time line. If you spent 24 hours of the day working,,then went back 24 hours,,,the work you had achieved would no longer be done,,,so you would have to start again. Its more an extention to time thats required,,,not time travel.

You can borrow my copy of Huey Lewis & The News greatest hits - then at least you can listen to "Back In Time" for motivation..

[Tony]

You can watch my one if you like.
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[gatsby]

You can watch my one if you like.
kpjnLStlrww

Damn- you definately one-upped me like a sonuvabitch..

[Cole]

I totally understand what you mean, I am in the involvement of the gaming industry running 5 main dedicated boxes, and multiple separate servers on each machine.

this sounds fairly basic, but when you take into account the multiple mods, the different little tweaks to each server, the website, support, and over 60 active donating admins, it gets very confusing by yourself, let alone with the second person that owns it.

so I could be doing something and he could go and try and do it a different way and not realise I had already done it..

really by the way you've worded the thread it has no answer, or you have an inkling as to how you could do it and you don't want to mention it.

anyway I really hope you find a way of streamlining keeping your websites up to date mate, and all fixed up.

Cole

[Tony]

Thanks Cole...you've out lined the majority of the problems we face. I've no idea on how to make days 48 hours,,I only wish I had. When you have to play catch up after a problem,,an all nighter is the only way to go,,,a ghostie as we call it.
Still,,,,its our choice,,,

[Cole]

well just like me, its about organisation, and time management.

especially committing to things you don't have the resources for, or things you don't have the current networking all set up for.

Cole

[garv]

the big problem is when things get taken out of your hand. like changing servers and the company doing it are rather shit at understanding what you need and say "yes that will be easy", 2 months later and it's still not sorted, but they've got most of your savings and you're tied to them till that's paid off. bloody servers!

[Weeping Mushrooms]

The assholes who decided on 24 hour days could just change it to 48. Or, well, whoever thinks they have that kind of power could. I mean, the span of existence (time) really can't be altered. Regardless of how long the sun is out or which way the world turns, it's been here that long. Even if it spun backwards or it's orbit around the sun slowed the span of it's existence would be the same.

In some places we have 6 months days, and here the sun goes down at 9PM. So really, it looks like time is in the eye of the beholder. Since the span of existence is the same, what difference would it make if a day here became 48 hours?

All we'd need to do is change the clock face.

[asphalt]

well I suppose if you could fly through enough time zones. . . .

[TheKahunaHasArrived]

I've heard that lowering the temperature of something to o degrees K is equal to freezing time, so you could get all the time you want if you reach absolute zero lol.
on another topic, if you align all the nuclei of the atoms in a wall to one spot you can make it appear walk-through-able. thoug i wouldn't recomend it, if you miss any bits it'd stab you to death as you walk through it... :S

[BD2021]

I know this is an old thread, but it caught my interest...
I've heard that lowering the temperature of something to o degrees K is equal to freezing time, so you could get all the time you want if you reach absolute zero lol.

if you were to get the universe to the temperature 0 degrees K then yes, you would be freazing time in that you would freeze all the particles of said universe (no kinetic energy, not sure about potential energy), but since to do so would essentially remove all the energy from said universe it probably wouldnt be the best solution to the problem. If you really wanted to get more than 24 hrs into a day the only remotely plausable idea i can think of would have to be something involving changing the curvature of space and thus time if i got that whole thing correct (my physics is horrible at best).

[Tony]

Its not an old thread,,,its an "On Going" thread., and you're edging into Astro Physics. If people don't understand what you're encroatching upon, this is just a simple enlightenment.
Relativity views space-time as a continuum; that is, time becomes another dimension of space, making space four-dimensional. This is really common sense-we know that it takes time to move through the physical dimensions of space. (length, width, and heigth) Time is a property of space that is distinct from yet closely related to the other three. (Althought we know we can move through space in any direction, we can only move forward in time, at least until wormholes are discovered.)
Curvature of space-time can be more difficult to understand. One cannot easily picture the so-called nothingness of space being curved or a non-physical property like time being warped. But relativity (a theory which has yet to be disproved) predicts this curvature and uses gravity as proof of it. In fact, relativity predicts singularities, points in space-time where the curvature reaches infinity. Singularities are the centers of black holes, points of gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
According to relativity, the curvature of space-time is gravity. The amount of curvature is governed by the distribution of matter and energy in the universe, but this distribution is determined by the curvature of space-time. Think of the Universe as a large Rubber sheet. A large object, such as a shot put, would cause a large indentation that would cause a marble to roll in. Or, if an area of space contained only small objects, several marbles might roll together to form an area of 'strong gravity', which would in turn attract more objects.
In curved space-time, a straight line is NOT always the shortest distance between two points. But that's a different topic.
A couple of vids might expain it further.
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[the cat]

Where can i get a clock like the one in the vid.

[chickenlover88]

Okay, how about this. Say, for example, today is Tuesday. It's not, but anyway. Your task (updating code, buying a ham sandwich, procrastination, etc...) is to be completed by the deadline of Friday. That gives you, including the rest of today, which is Tuesday, three days (if you don't count Friday morning) in which to complete the aforementioned. However, you have five days of work at the very least, barring amphetamine abuse, theoretical physics, and Huey Lewis and The News. Now, this is all assuming, of course, that you are operating in accordance with the international standard of a 24 hour day, i.e. you have between 96 and 120 hours, depending on your time zone, or factoring in how long you put off doing it, etc... This is assuming a 24 hour day. Let us also assume, for the sake of demonstration, that you failed to turn in your work as per the deadline.

Now, suppose you "suddenly" start "believing" that each international day is composed of not 24 hours, but 48, hell, 72 hours. What would those persons responsible for your employment think?
And this is where you really have to sell it, so if you aren't a great actor, and I'm talking [insert a good actor here, preferably one that you like] great, then you might just want to stop reading here, as I've likely wasted enough of your time. Time you could have been spending researching realistic, reasonable solutions for this problem. But, if you've been following along, you're already unemployed by now, and the only choice you have is to feign a complete inability to perceive time correctly.

So you convince them that you're absolutely mad. Completely fucked in the head. Certified. Then, you get a friend in the press (this plan is rather specific, I've been continuously realizing as I type...) to run a story about "some crazy fucker who thinks days are two or three times as long as we all know them to be." With the general hypochondriasis in society "these days," It's bound to catch on. With any luck, by this time next year, people will be making psychiatrist appointments complaining of Garv's Syndrome. Meanwhile, you'll be left unable to successfully apply for a pistol permit in the US, and you might actually begin to think that you're crazy, what with all the invasive procedures and what not, but overall, I think you'll be better off than if you were still following that fascist 24 hour clock. (This is the sort of mentality you need to affect.)

Downsides include the following: Good probability of internment in mental institution, public laughingstock, medical laughingstock, familial laughingstock, etc...

So, after you get this disease named after you and everything, all you really have to do is write your memoirs and retire, or, coming logically full circle here, hire some more people to help you do your job. Fuck, you could probably make TIME's Person Of The Year.

[chickenlover88]

Tony's Syndrome. My bad.

[GridIronFan13]

Was reading somewhere, or saw something on The Discovery channel, or History channel, where when astronauts take off from earth and during the acceleration towards and eventually through the atmosphere, the time in which they exist, is actually slowed down by a fraction of a second. So, I assume, if you would like the day to be longer, just constantly be flying around in a space shuttle at insane speeds, and time (earth time that is) would being getting slower and slower, if you did it enough i presume?

[chickenlover88]

Was reading somewhere, or saw something on The Discovery channel, or History channel, where when astronauts take off from earth and during the acceleration towards and eventually through the atmosphere, the time in which they exist, is actually slowed down by a fraction of a second. So, I assume, if you would like the day to be longer, just constantly be flying around in a space shuttle at insane speeds, and time (earth time that is) would being getting slower and slower, if you did it enough i presume?

That would be some hella precise math in order to coordinate the logistics of your resupply, i.e. calculating exactly when in earth time you're going to slow down enough to take on fuel, provisions, update your porn stash and so on, and having a support team being able to, on that precise moment in time, deliver said items to your ship.

Lightspeed would also help.