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maryl
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I went to visit my friend last week and he told me that each night he wakes up and gets out of bed at least 180 times. However, he always sleeps for at least 7 hours at a time. How can this be explained?
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James Fingas
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #1 on: May 15th, 2003, 7:55am » |
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How long was your visit (days/nights) ... was it the whole week?
Did you find the same sort of sleep problems?
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maryl
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I didn't stay the whole night, although i did have seven hours of sleep myself before leaving. Actually, I stayed for 24 hrs.
If I would have stayed a lot longer, I would have had the same sort of sleep as my friend.
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #3 on: May 15th, 2003, 1:46pm » |
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I don't blame you for not staying longer. It's so cold, I wouldn't be able to sleep at all!
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #4 on: May 22nd, 2003, 8:51pm » |
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 does your friend live in antarctica (or whatever that icy , near the poles, place is called) where night can last for months?
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maryl
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on May 22nd, 2003, 8:51pm, jade_conundrum wrote:| does your friend live in antarctica (or whatever that icy , near the poles, place is called) where night can last for months? |
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Brrrr, that's it.
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Roy42
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #6 on: Sep 6th, 2006, 3:26am » |
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or your friend is on pluto, disregarding how he got there
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #7 on: Sep 6th, 2006, 2:51pm » |
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Yeah, well pluto's gone now.
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #8 on: Sep 6th, 2006, 11:44pm » |
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I hate that,
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #9 on: Sep 7th, 2006, 1:53am » |
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How could we lose something as big as a planet? I mean, I understand that someone can loose his car key. I can understand when someone looses his car. But a planet? Duh!
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #10 on: Sep 7th, 2006, 8:50am » |
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on Sep 7th, 2006, 1:53am, Grimbal wrote:| How could we lose something as big as a planet? I mean, I understand that someone can loose his car key. I can understand when someone looses his car. But a planet? Duh! |
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There is a small group which is desperately trying to find it... otherwise they would have to reprint so many text books..
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #11 on: Sep 7th, 2006, 5:17pm » |
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If they don't hurry up, I'm gonna go look for it.
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #12 on: Sep 8th, 2006, 5:23pm » |
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The really sad thing about this is: There are people out there who think that Pluto is actually gone. Someone recently submitted a comment to the local paper here complaining that the solar system was "out of balance" now! 
Pluto is a hot topic locally because its discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh, was a Kansas boy. Personally, Clyde was a great astronomer, regardless of what you call his most well-known discovery.
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cchris
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #13 on: Sep 8th, 2006, 11:19pm » |
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They just downgraded it, right?
& would've never guessed pluto's finder was from kansas, of all places. But then again, no one wants to give credit to anyone unless they're at UCLA or something big like that.
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #14 on: Sep 9th, 2006, 7:41am » |
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More specifically, the International Astronomical Union (IAU), finally decided on a definition for the word "Planet" (before, there was no set criterion as to what made some astronomical bodies planets, while others were not). It did this because other Pluto-sized bodies have been discovered, and it seems likely that there are many of them in the outer solar system (beyond Neptune). To include them as planets would change our former total of 9 to at least 12 and likely as high as 50 or 100. This seemed ridiculous to the majority of IAU astronomers, so they decided on criterion beyond size: To be a planet, a body must
(1) be in principle orbit about the sun (no moons),
(2) be big enough for gravity to overcome structural forces and cause the body to be roughly spherical (no asteroids either),
(3) have cleared its orbit of most other objects (no Pluto or other Kuiper belt objects).
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #15 on: Sep 10th, 2006, 7:53pm » |
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As an alternative (and somewhat naive) answer to the original problem, your friend could also be sleeping during the day. Could your friend be Doctor Acula?
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cchris
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Re: Sleep
« Reply #16 on: Sep 11th, 2006, 2:47pm » |
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As long as it's dark, it's night if you don't know what time it is, maybe you're underground.
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