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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Actually, sleeping isn't a bad idea, if time were to work the way liorean describes in his first option. Basically this would mean that you could stay awake as long as you wanted and then go to sleep for as long as you wanted without missing anything. To everyone else around you, it would appear as if you never slept. And since you wouldn't be able to interact with anyone or anything during the "frozen time," you might as well use it to do something that doesn't require any interaction whatsoever. Hmm... I just thought of a problem, though. If everything and everyone around you is frozen (as they would be if time stopped), then wouldn't you die? Even the air would be frozen, and we wouldn't be able to move oxygen into our lungs. If you're going to extend this bubble of "time immunity" to the air around us, then wouldn't you have to include whatever is in that air, like people? There are just too many logical problems with this. :p (Yes, I realize that it's a philosophical question and not a logical one--but I still think puzzling out the ramifications of such time warping is far more interesting than figuring out what to do with it. So I'm a nutter. Sue me.) [Edit: Not that I have any objection to this thread being in the main forum, but this sort of thing is pretty much what the Philosophy and Other Silliness forum was made for. If anyone disagrees, feel free to move it back.] [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/suho_taegeuk_sig2.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2031]Suho1004[/url] on 11-30-2007 01:48)[/small] Loading...
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