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(Message started by: maryl on May 14^th, 2003, 1:25pm)

Title: Sleep
Post by maryl on May 14^th, 2003, 1:25pm

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?

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by James Fingas on May 15^th, 2003, 7:55am

How long was your visit (days/nights) ... was it the whole week?

Did you find the same sort of sleep problems?

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by maryl on May 15^th, 2003, 1:38pm

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.

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by BNC on May 15^th, 2003, 1:46pm

I don't blame you for not staying longer. It's so cold, I wouldn't be able to sleep at all!

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by jade_conundrum on May 22^nd, 2003, 8:51pm

;D does your friend [hide] live in antarctica (or whatever that icy , near the poles, place is called) where night can last for months? [/hide]

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by maryl on May 23^rd, 2003, 10:09am

on 05/22/03 at 20:51:43, jade_conundrum wrote:

;D does your friend [hide] live in antarctica (or whatever that icy , near the poles, place is called) where night can last for months? [/hide]

Brrrr, that's it.

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by Roy on Sep 6^th, 2006, 3:26am

or your friend is on pluto, disregarding how he got there

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by cchris on Sep 6^th, 2006, 2:51pm

Yeah, well pluto's gone now.

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by Roy on Sep 6^th, 2006, 11:44pm

I hate that,

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by Grimbal on Sep 7^th, 2006, 1:53am

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!

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by Sameer on Sep 7^th, 2006, 8:50am

on 09/07/06 at 01:53:21, 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!

There is a small group which is desperately trying to find it... otherwise they would have to reprint so many text books..

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by cchris on Sep 7^th, 2006, 5:17pm

If they don't hurry up, I'm gonna go look for it.

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by Icarus on Sep 8^th, 2006, 5:23pm

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! :P

Pluto is a hot topic locally because its discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Tombaugh), was a Kansas boy. Personally, Clyde was a great astronomer, regardless of what you call his most well-known discovery.

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by cchris on Sep 8^th, 2006, 11:19pm

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.

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by Icarus on Sep 9^th, 2006, 7:41am

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).

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Sep 10^th, 2006, 7:53pm

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?

Title: Re: Sleep
Post by cchris on Sep 11^th, 2006, 2:47pm

As long as it's dark, it's night if you don't know what time it is, maybe you're underground.