For the price of one american dollar, you can do one of two things

#1, no question. I sometimes wish this anyways. I don't know why someone would pick #2, food and drink is enjoyable.

Who's pocketing the money from this? And why would they only let you pay for one option, what kind of terrible business is this person running? And one dollar, really? You could charge way more than that, person.
 
Well I don't think in this hypothetical either choice would make you sick.

For me, I only have so little time in my life and so much I'd like to do, anything that would help increase the amount of useful time to me would be a boon.

So you will like a Base-12 planet better because you can have more total life time. The planet rotates itself and revolves around the sun both different.

24 hours per 1 day. 72 minutes per hour and 72 seconds per minute. Duodecimal 20, 60, 60. Suppose the 1-second absolute quantity length remains the same.
 
Hey Zack, this is an imaginative topic, both #1 and #2 mentioned by caketastydelish the author cannot be realistically done by any of us.
 
So you will like a Base-12 planet better because you can have more total life time. The planet rotates itself and revolves around the sun both different.

24 hours per 1 day. 72 minutes per hour and 72 seconds per minute. Duodecimal 20, 60, 60. Suppose the 1-second absolute quantity length remains the same.

Presumably I would live for less days so it would balance out as a wash.
 
That was why I said the planet rotations and revolves had to be different, so you could keep the cycles and still live close to age 100.
 
That would work if the years had less days.

In the end though, nothing you do would make the overall time I spend awake over my lifetime increase, which is the real goal.

Of course, the planet may have other things going for it.
 
Not only the planet itself has to be changed, also the orbit of the planet, the gravity, the atmosphere and the exosphere. Einstein's relativity theories explain the important keys dealing with these universal science.

Absolute time in a day is really one self-rotation cycle of a planet.

Number of days in a year directly relate to how the planet revolves around the sun.

Number of days in a month has the strong association with the habits of the moon.

They are possible to increase simultaneously if the solar system and its components can be re-positioned, enlarged, gravity-changed and so on.

Some of the ideas originated from this group -
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What does relativity have to do with it? Unless the base 12 numerical system causes the planet to move near the speed of light.
 
The planet was created 1st, humans 2nd, numerical systems 3rd.

So the different type of planet will give humans the 6th fingers for the higher productions, and of course the completely time system change.

There's really nothing we can do at this point with the current technology levels.
 
What is this?!

You give me the choice of doing without one of the two things that I enjoy most in the world. And you expect me to pay for this?

Nope. I'm keeping both of them. And I'm keeping my money.
 
#1, no question. I sometimes wish this anyways. I don't know why someone would pick #2, food and drink is enjoyable.

Who's pocketing the money from this? And why would they only let you pay for one option, what kind of terrible business is this person running? And one dollar, really? You could charge way more than that, person.

I'll give a thoughtful answer, reserve this life line when you really need it (#1 or #2). Russia and Iran exist, World War III will be a potential. Very hard to predict which choice is better for most people right now.
 
I am wondering how are we going to get nutrients into our body if we don't eat or drink? I am also wondering is how your body will survive without time for it to rest and repair itself without sleep?
 
One way would be to have a cannula fitted and have nutrients pumped straight into your blood.

Or you could be fed through a stoma into the stomach.

Neither seem particularly pleasant compared with eating and enjoying a proper cooked breakfast. But there you are.

As for sleep, I don't see why the body couldn't in theory repair itself while conscious.

It may be we sleep simply because it wasn't particularly productive for us to roam about at night.

Still, I absolutely love being asleep. I don't understand why other people don't love it too. Being awake is pale in comparison.
 
Definitely no sleep, assuming perfect lucidity, not only would it eliminate the wastefulness of actual sleep, I would also get rid of that groggyness in the early morning. I've heard about polyphasic sleep and have tried to adopt it but so far with no success, I just sleep through if I'm too tired or don't fall asleep in my naps. My age is not right probably, I'm still at the point where if left alone I sleep for 10 hours straight :cry:
 
I'd go for option 1 without question, although that may just reflect my own... difficult relationship with sleep and sleep schedules. Owen might be right and I might spend a lot of time at a loose end, but it would make everything so much easier.

edit: In fact, for me this would largely resolve the need for two, because my biggest gripe for food isn't the cost, it's the difficulty of establishing a regular meal pattern, managing to eat the right amount of the right sort of thing at the right time. (I just struggle to establish life-rhythms generally; partly my fault, partly not.) If you had eight extra hours a day, you'd have a lot more flexibility in that regard- and what's more, I could apply some of that free time to preparing more food from scratch, so I'd still save money. It just gets better and better!

edit2: Plus, come to think of it, I don't know if the free time would be a problem. I'm somebody who quite values the ability to just do nothing- I never feel right unless I've spent at least a couple of hours a day slumped in a heap doing nothing of any value- so being able to have a full day and get my fair share of slumpery would be great. In fact, you'd probably need the nothing-time, even people who like to keep themselves busy, because that sort of time helps you recharge and reflect. Moving all the time eats at your nerves, and that would be doubly true if you were moving all the time. Option 1 is the problem that solves itself!
 
Maintaining a good diet that doesn't irritate my system is difficult. I'd probably go for number 2. I like a good sleep. The dreams are interesting and give me something to write about.
 
What is this?!

You give me the choice of doing without one of the two things that I enjoy most in the world. And you expect me to pay for this?

Nope. I'm keeping both of them. And I'm keeping my money.

I'm with Borachio, but I'll go him one better. I would pay one US dollar to have to eat and sleep. Both. I'd pay a dollar to continue needing ~8 hours of sleep each day and another dollar to continue needing ~3 meals per day.

And think the money well spent.
 
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