United Royal Islands needs sleep.

[United Royal Islands]

Like Kortexia's korner of drunk rambling, here comes United Royal Islands needs sleep. A collection of observations and half asleep thoughts brought to you by unscheduled night shifts and employees being unreliable. Feel free to post insomnia induced thoughts or other things that come to you when you should be sleeping but can't for whatever reason that is. It might also ramble, I tend to do that when I am overtired.
Welcome.

[United Royal Islands]

So to start off. Toxic by Britany spears was on the radio as I drove from one hotel to the other. And I had this rambling thought as I drove.
I know it was originally meant as a joke, but in the first season of the revived Doctor Who, this song Toxic appears in the second episode. And I probably watched that season 7/8 different times by now. And the thing that struck me about the song as I drove between the hotels was how much that joke works better now than it did at the time. Cause the villain introduces it as a classic earth ballad, but it was like last year's song when the episode came out. Now a decade ish later every time I hear it I don't think of the year. I see a crazy trampoline as a villain in space set on murder for profit.

[United Royal Islands]

Speaking of Doctor Who. Well more specifically things that are larger inside than outside. I have a question about the practical application of such technology. Like if I had a hotel with nearly infinite number of rooms, how would I price that? I would also have to have an indoor parking garage with valet service. But really it's hard to imagine. Also the novelty of such a hotel would be out weighed by the massive resources problem posed by such a hotel.

[United Royal Islands]

So I have been at work all day. Since about about 10am my time, and it is about about 3:30 am, and instead of trying to rest around 1am when it would make sense and the hotel is less busy, I find an argument going on in the WA/GA/SC discord regarding the nature of mathematical truth and it bearing on the world. And After a comment about the truth value of sqrt-1 in nature and describing natural phenomena, I am debating EP(excidium planetis) about whether or not negative numbers are real, or whether or not sqrt-1 is and how the concepts are interrelated and if nature proves they are real or merely that we manage to find use for any advanced logical concept if it sticks around long enough.

[Ater Nox]

Negative numbers are Real

[United Royal Islands]

So is sqrt-1

[Ater Nox]

i isn't Real, it is Imaginary, but that doesn't mean it isn't real.

[United Royal Islands]

Oct 17, 2017 4:37:48 GMT -5 Ater Nox said:

i isn't Real, it is Imaginary, but that doesn't mean it isn't real.

I totally wish I could copy and paste from discord. You just summarized 3 hours of argument very well. By its definition complex numbers are not real, but that doesn’t make them any less real in describing phenomena than any other class of numbers doing similar things.

[Tanzoria]

Oct 17, 2017 4:37:48 GMT -5 Ater Nox said:

i isn't Real, it is Imaginary, but that doesn't mean it isn't real.

Of course it is happening inside your head Ater, but why on earth should that mean it is not real>

[Ater Nox]

I mean, it's happening on paper as well as in my head.

[United Royal Islands]

So day 4 of 16 hour days. Feel like autopilot. Also roadkill. Am hoping to take a brief nap today but yesterday’s plans failed

[United Royal Islands]

So day 5 now, and all I crave is Chinese food.

[Echolilia]

It's day, so I must not need to sleep. No indeedy.

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

You can have my bed, I'll stay on the couch

[Ater Nox]

URI, go to sleep

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

Now!

[Kortexia]

When you have had 3 hours of sleep in the last like 60 hours and your mind starts to ramble on and on and you want to sleep but can't.

[United Royal Islands]

Cascada - Everytime we touch

[United Royal Islands]

Eliza Rickman - Pretty Little Head

[United Royal Islands]

The Veronicas - Untouched

[Jabberwocky]

The best sleep aid is golf on tv, at low volume.

[Aersoldorf]

Or try reading an insurance policy, and if that fails you can always induce REM sleep by trying to read through the ‘begats’ in a KJV OT

[United Royal Islands]

Tonight’s insomnia induced ramble now includes
- fairy lights
- interstate/freeway noise on cold nights

So strings of led fairy lights
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07FSLWPRB?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
Are hard to photograph when hung from the ceiling and turned on. Also much better than standard overhead lighting. Very peaceful, 9.8/10. Would recommend.

Also I am sure there is a reasonable explanation but during the summer you cannot hear the interstate (7 miles from my house) but when the temperature is below 40 F you can, and at negative F it’s a fairly higher pitched whine. Perhaps it’s the shape of the valley but that doesn’t change as the temperature does. In any case I am sure a physicist might know.

[Neutrality United]

Temperature is also a condition that affects the speed of sound. Heat, like sound, is a form of kinetic energy. Molecules at higher temperatures have more energy, thus they can vibrate faster. Since the molecules vibrate faster, sound waves can travel more quickly.

Source: www.nde-ed.org/EducationResources/HighSchool/Sound/tempandspeed.htm