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Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

From:J.A. Mills <xenolingua@...>
Date:Thursday, October 1, 1998, 8:37
In a message dated 9/30/98 10:55:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time, fortytwo@UFL.EDU
writes:

<< J.A. Mills wrote:
 > Interesting.  Don't refute the idea without further exploration, however.
 > Logically, it wouldn't be a "day" of 10 "hours"; rather, a "day" of 20
 > "hours"--daytime and nighttime.  Don't settle for a labor-oppressing 8-hour
 > day, but a 6 or 7 hour day.  Imagine a utopian and technologically
permissable
 > 5 hour day over 4 shifts.  Go-getters could have two different jobs of 5
hours
 > each.

 Actually, logically it *would* be a 10-hour day, if you're going to
 decimalize, decimalize all the way, don't break the day into 20
 sections.
  >>
Hey, buddy!  Don't be messin' wit' my logic.