Field MArshall Dunning unveils the new Decimal Time system

[Whaleboy]

I disagree. A bigger Planet may be at a moving a different speed?

Not at all, if Earth stole Jupiters orbit, it would take exactly the same time. The period of orbit is determined by the mass of the body being orbited (the sun), and the distance from that body. Anything atmospheric that would increase or decrease the temperature would also have other effects, for example, certain gases which retain heat, or lack of those gases, will affect the heat distribution, and other stuff like oxygen content, more importantly, ozone content, and other stuff, all of which while giving a higher temperature at a different distance to the sun, would create conditions that would make the atmosphere less hospitable in other respects. Water content is another big one, as is the stopping power of the atmosphere against cosmic radiation.

Even if not, a 300 or 400 day year would be feasable,

No, such a large gap would certainly allow bacterial life, but the temperature variations, and the inherent atmospheric variations that go with that would prevent to formation of large multi-cellular organisms. A reasonable guess as to the maximum would be moderately sized anthropods, invertebrates like cockroaches, feeding on plants and mosses. It requires a very specific range of temperatures to allow large beings to evolve. The exception to that would be large beings living off a chemosynthetic producer-based food chain, whereas ours is photosynthetic. Such a system can only happen underwater and at high pressure, like hydrothermal vents, and I am not about to RP Marijuania +co being 3 miles undersea. Silicon-based life forms, or those that replace oxygen with chlorine as the electron-accepter, that could cope with higher temperatures would not be able to form more complex life forms, I'd be suprised if they could form the equivalent of basic anthropods!!

The factors that cause life on the human level on a planet give a suprisingly limited range of variables.

Any difference would cause unacceptable tidal stresses

We are currently at the extreme end of acceptability, it was at its best approx 1.5-2 billion years ago, when the moon was much closer. Of course, this led to much greater volcanic activity, but that was compensated by the far greater variety of life at that time than today, absorbing the volcanic gases.

Now the moon is moving futher away, due to tidal acceleration, and partly because of this, the Earth will become uninhabitable within 1 billion years, as we become far more prone to the grav influence of other planets, tilting the earth, disrupting the atmospheric and water-based mechanisms for distributing the suns heat. We would be in a constant, devastating cycle of ice-ages and hot-ages, to the extent that either extreme would make civilised life impossible, if humanity survives at all, expect small primitive communities living in islands of biodiversity.

The closer the moon gets, the greater the tidal stresses, thus the greater volcanic activity, which creates, and did create when Earth was younger, much much greater amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. If that was the case today, global warming would seem like a mere barbeque to the relative inferno that would result. When this did happen on Earth, there was a far greater amount of life and biodiversity than today, due to Earth being somewhat more hospitable (for other reasons) than it is today, so it coped.

That factor would be multiplied if we had more moons of a comparable size to Lunar. The pull caused would be cancelled out, then doubles, then we would be pulled in many directions, the damage caused to the stability of the mantle and the crust would increase exponentially as the number of moons increase.

I'm not. I'm assuming it has to be bigger, to fit that many people, and that we can be creative about size and orbit.

As such things as orbit, size (thus speed of rotation and centripetal force) are essential to the viability of human life on Earth, as well as the way we measure, perceive and recognise the measures of time, I'm assuming that we live on this Earth. I think that we have to draw the line of reasonability about the capacity of this planet for inhabiting people. Remeber this is a game, we are allowed to be imaginative. Alternatively, one can choose the more aesthetic option of making each region a separate "Earth", but of course, that would disrupt previous RP. Either way, the Earth, as it is, shuold stay.

Nonetheless, many aspects of this game are unrealistic compared to the Earth. I am assuming them to be unrealistic, not changing the paramaters of the Earth to an unacceptable degree in order to make them seem more realistic. It is more realistic to have humans full stop than a planet where they cannot live!!! Besides, is it realistic to have a nation expanding by 5-12 million per year?

[Urban Ranger]

Technical details is rather irrelevant here. If a decimal time system is favourable on this planent, it would have been adopted. Since it hasn't, that means said system runs against the generally accepted international measuring system.

[Sheep]

The Field Marshall laughs at the discomfiture his moves have caused. The Decimal Time is soley a more efficent way of keeping time for military, governmental and buisness purposes. Of course other than that normal time is kept for the public. Conversion is not too hard for the average Sheepstan, thanks to our schools smarter than the average citizen of Apolyton.

[Whaleboy]

Sheep: Expect in that case your nations time to not correspond to the conditions you see around you, which will cause problems with stuff like people geting up for work in the middle of the night, the sun rising at midnight, and the new day beginning when Star Trek starts

[Sheep]

Your point being.

[Archaic]

That without redefining the length of a second, which you did not do, your time system is bunk.

http://zapatopi.net/metrictime.html

Read.

[Sheep]

Do I care if the sun comes up at midnight. Its ****ing rp, not rl people need to learn the friggin diffrence.

[Whaleboy]

Then I suppose we can RP better systems, like, I dunno, the current one?

Seriously, The Gregorian/Julian system is the best way of reconciling physical and celestial phenomenon with the time system, the former of course, is something that we are biologically and psychologically dependent on for regulation of our body clocks, same goes for other animals, who use the world around them as their time reference.

[Archaic]

Originally posted by elijah
Then I suppose we can RP better systems, like, I dunno, the current one?

Seriously, The Gregorian/Julian system is the best way of reconciling physical and celestial phenomenon with the time system, the former of course, is something that we are biologically and psychologically dependent on for regulation of our body clocks, same goes for other animals, who use the world around them as their time reference.

Well, I wouldn't go that far. Proper Metric Time would be best, but Sheeps Decimal Time isn't Metric Time, and adopting Metric Time could only really be done if all nations did it at once.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Sheep
Your point being.

That means, for one thing, your military can't fight.