Re: Why RPG IV ....

[Alan C <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Don, Barbara, Joel: 

Don: this reminds me of what Napoleon tried to do back years ago. Change 
the week from 7 days to 10, as I'm told. He discovered fairly quickly 
that his troops fatigued substancially faster and deteriorated 
substancially faster...so he moved back to the old 7. I guess somewhere 
there's a reason for the design of why things are the way they are...

=> "..Working as designed..", eh?  I also have read that Lenin tried the 
same thing (for boosting productivity supposedly) and it didn't work 
there either.

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Joel Fritz wrote:  I think I've mentioned this before, but I still think 
it's a good idea. Move the earth's orbit so that the year is either 256 
or 512 days exactly. There might be some side effects, but I figure if 
we're able to move the earth's orbit, we can deal with the side effects. <g>

=> But would that be in terms of (apparent) sidereal days, (apparent) 
solar days, or a mean solar day?  Or a lunar day, civil day, the evening 
plus the morning?  (Make sure you get rid of the leap seconds).

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Barbara Morris wrote:   Brilliant! As part of the same change, modify 
the human body to have 8 fingers on each hand so the natural base for 
arithmetic would be 16 instead of 10.

=> Also "working as designed.."  :-)  LOL

- Alan