Even easier, Fernando: "Invent" a spherical, but hollow Earth, with the "Sun" quite close, at the center! Perfectly common design for a sufficiently large, and sufficiently advanced space habitat, or entire civilisation, living within a Dyson Sphere...
Dave On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Fernando Cabral wrote: > Thierry van Steenberghe wrote: > > > > Steve Lelievre wrote: > > > > > > > > Ireland is on the same timezone at the UK, and so is Portugal. It s > > > Anyway, timezones don't solve the whole problem. When I lived in England I > > > did a lot of business with Finland (+2 hours), and France and Germany > > > (+1). > > > It was difficult to contact colleagues when we needed to. Yes, this was > > > due > > > > Still, it's more easy to find somebody in UK or Finland than in the US, from > > Europe, that is, don't you think? I remember when I was in a company here in > > Brussels, how difficult it was to call equipment providers in the US. > > > Hey, guys, how about inventing a flat world with a sun > burning from far, far, far away and turning itself on and > off 12 hours? If it is very, very far away every corner of > the new, flat world will be equally lit. And if it turns itself > on and off regularly there will be no time zones, no shift > differences, no daylight saving in the Summer and none of > the problems some of us have been discussing. > > Let's accept for a fact that all those problems are NOT created > by time zones or daylight saving time. They are not even > problems. > They are the reality we are provided with. And if we are > interested in causes, it is because the Earth is a ball, > it revolves and moves, so on and so forth. :-) > > - fernando > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Fernando Cabral Padrao iX Sistemas > Abertos > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pix.com.br > Fone Direto: +55 61 329-0206 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > PABX: +55 61 329-0202 Fax: +55 61 326-3082 > 15? 45' 04.9" S (23 L 0196446/8256520) 47? 49' 58.6" W > 19? 37' 57.0" S (23 K 0469898/7829161) 45? 17' 13.6" W > ------------------------------------------------------------------ >
