NationStates Jolt Archive

Yes I have decided to remove the old and out of date (and probably untrue) Genesis version of God making the world in 7 days. How old fashioned and crude.

I'm going to decimalise the week to have 10 days. We shall keep:

Monday (the day of work)
Tuesday (the day of work)
Wednesday (the day of work)
Thursday (the day of work)
Friday (the day of work)
Saturday (the day of work)
Sunday (the day of rest)

And have three more days:

Ganeshday (the day of silence)
Jesusday (the day of rebirth)
Mohammadday (the day of death to the infidel scum)

Isnt that all nice and equal?

Metric weeks will never catch on.

Tough luck Jews. No Messiah, no special day for your religion. Now quit your whining, if you really wanted a messiah all that much you would have taken Jesus.

Yes I have decided to remove the old and out of date (and probably untrue) Genesis version of God making the world in 7 days. How old fashioned and crude.

I'm going to decimalise the week to have 10 days. We shall keep:

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

And have three more days:

Ganeshday
Jesusday
Mohammadday

Isnt that all nice and equal?


So.... taking religion out of the week, decimalising it, and then making the new three days all religiously based?

It makes no sense.
I LOVE IT!

Please explain how your metric weeks will work with lunar cycles and the length of the year.

I'm sure you can come up with some imaginative explanation, and I'd love to hear it! :D

Please explain how your metric weeks will work with lunar cycles and the length of the year.

I'm sure you can come up with some imaginative explanation, and I'd love to hear it! :D

I noticed this flaw. And I have thus come up with a four day week, using Friday, Saturday, Sunday, And a new day which will officially be known as Thatotherday.

This works with the lunar cycle and with alcoholics. Everyones is happy.

you could make some kind of kilo-year

Didn't the French do something like this after the revolution?

Please explain how your metric weeks will work with lunar cycles and the length of the year.

I'm sure you can come up with some imaginative explanation, and I'd love to hear it! :D

What! You believe in running your life by lunar cycles? How old fashioned.

I shall decimalise lunar cycles with my amazing moon altering device and so the month shall have 10 quarters. That'll teach you! Hahahahahahahahahaha! Never oppose decimalisation again!

Soon Im going to decimalise the human body so we will all have 10 ears, eyes, arms, lungs, hearts etc etc. I mean the old system is sooooo old fashioned. Ah the powers of genetic modification.

What! You believe in running your life by lunar cycles? How old fashioned.

I shall decimalise lunar cycles with my amazing moon altering device and so the month shall have 10 quarters. That'll teach you! Hahahahahahahahahaha! Never oppose decimalisation again!

Soon Im going to decimalise the human body so we will all have 10 ears, eyes, arms, lungs, hearts etc etc. I mean the old system is sooooo old fashioned. Ah the powers of genetic modification.

Oh, well in that case, could you please speed the Earth's orbit around the sun, so we can shorten the year to exactly 360 days? It's fine with me if you just toss away some of the Earth's excess weight, or just give it a touch with your cosmic cue stick for more momentum. Whatever you choose is good.

Oh, well in that case, could you please speed the Earth's orbit around the sun, so we can shorten the year to exactly 360 days? It's fine with me if you just toss away some of the Earth's excess weight, or just give it a touch with your cosmic cue stick for more momentum. Whatever you choose is good.

No! that's not decimal enough! speed it up to ten days!

That's the decimal spirit!

Can you make the earth rotate on it's axis a little faster? Let's have ten second days. That decimal enough for you?

Oh, well in that case, could you please speed the Earth's orbit around the sun, so we can shorten the year to exactly 360 days? It's fine with me if you just toss away some of the Earth's excess weight, or just give it a touch with your cosmic cue stick for more momentum. Whatever you choose is good.

360 days? Why stop there? 100 days is more true to decimalisation. Of course we would have to jettison most of Africa and South America but they are probably going to challenge the world order of decimals anyway and so deserve to be ejeced into space.

Didn't the French do something like this after the revolution?

yes they did during the revolution when they tried to eliminate religion and replace it with the supreme being, and we all know how that turned out....

yes they did during the revolution when they tried to eliminate religion and replace it with the supreme being, and we all know how that turned out....

My supreme being would Decimore, the Lord of the Decimal Place, whom all would worship and call King! King I tells you

(and before the angry threads start coming - this is joke. I can't stand decimalisation - it takes the individualism out of things)

Hate to butt in and (attempt to) ruin your fun... (ok i love it) but the mass of the orbiting object cancels in all relevent equations and thus has no effect on orbital period or velocity. So jetissoning countries isnt the answer... also giving us a big shove 'forwards' in our orbit would actually serve to LENGTHEN the year, the correct method would be to shove 'backwards' - ie what you would think would slow us down... that would however make our orbit rather hyperbolic (with current distance at apogee) ... so a secondary burst would be required when we got in to the perigee distance... if it wasnt so late (and I wasnt so lazy) I'd calculate how much mass we'd have to burn off (in a big fat ass rocket) to get ourselves in to an orbital radius that would give us a 100 day year (and then say, for example, "ok make a big rocket and chuck the americas into it as fuel, then when at apogee chuck in eurasia..."), but I can pretty much guarantee that it wouldnt be a good thing for the remaining Australians... look at venus... pretty warm... also someone would just HAVE to do something about the moon... so overall, not perhaps the best plan ever.

Alternate plan: genetic modification so that everyone has 365.25 fingers. Think Of The Keyboards... and the guitars... mmm, guitars...


Edit: DAMMIT - just realised that I'm using a thread like this to NOT advocate binary counting systems! Binary all the way! Abandon the genetic tyrrany of your 1010 digits! Simply cut off your ring fingers and have a Round Binary Number Of Fingers! (1000) Free your mind! Think of how easy pocket calculators would be to use with only 2 number keys!


Apologies as I've just made a very drunk sounding post while not actually having consumed anything alcholic :(

Hate to butt in and (attempt to) ruin your fun... (ok i love it) but the mass of the orbiting object cancels in all relevent equations and thus has no effect on orbital period or velocity. So jetissoning countries isnt the answer... also giving us a big shove 'forwards' in our orbit would actually serve to LENGTHEN the year, the correct method would be to shove 'backwards' - ie what you would think would slow us down... that would however make our orbit rather hyperbolic (with current distance at apogee) ... so a secondary burst would be required when we got in to the perigee distance... if it wasnt so late (and I wasnt so lazy) I'd calculate how much mass we'd have to burn off (in a big fat ass rocket) to get ourselves in to an orbital radius that would give us a 100 day year (and then say, for example, "ok make a big rocket and chuck the americas into it as fuel, then when at apogee chuck in eurasia..."), but I can pretty much guarantee that it wouldnt be a good thing for the remaining Australians... look at venus... pretty warm... also someone would just HAVE to do something about the moon... so overall, not perhaps the best plan ever.

Alternate plan: genetic modification so that everyone has 365.25 fingers. Think Of The Keyboards... and the guitars... mmm, guitars...

I think I shall jettison you too. Decimore shall have your head for this, infidel scum! All hail Decimore!

Binarus! Binarus!


...feel this is a good point to introduce the nasty ol' joke:

There are 10 types of people in this world; those who understand binary and those who don't.

More decimalisation ideas:

Alll buildings should have 10 sides

We should have 10 dimensions

All people should have 10 friends and 10 wives and 10 children and 10 families - any who fail to meet the quota shall be executed for crimes against Decimore.

People should have 10 selves whom they are in constant debate with.

The world should be remoulded so it has 10 sides.

All peoples should have 10 brain cells

Torches should have 10 batteries

The sky should be 10 sided

Birds should have 10 wings

Dude, you don't have to change the movement of planets cycles to decimize the measurement of time. The choice of using lunar cycles, earth's rotation, and Earth's revolution around the sun to measure time is a completly arbitary and pointless one. It is just as easy to decide that there 100 seconds in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour, 10 hours in a day, 10 days in a month, and 10 months in a year.

It would, however, require changing all clocks. remember, all systems of measurement are arbitrary. So long as the units are internally consistant one is just as good as another.

The new week sounds good, except for the day of rebirth. I is just too much trouble to crawl up a women's vagina and come back out once a week.

Actualy, it is prefferabel to set a standard time measurement now. When space travel becomes common Earth cycle based time measurements will be meaningless.