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IKEA has furnished and is renting out a 10 m2 apartment in central Tokyo for about a dollar per month. It's clearly a gimmick of sorts as the furniture in the apartment are worth a lot more then that. Still looking at the pictures it looks like living in a nicely furnished prison cell, that is also very high (floor to ceiling). Any takers for such compact living? I dont think climbing around on ladders to get around is for me.
It seems very futuristic though; it is a staple of sci-fi to pack people like sardines in a can (Ripley's apartment in aliens, 5th element etc., etc.)
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/25/business/ikea-japan-tokyo-tiny-apartment-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.ikea.com/jp/ja/campaigns/ca00-tiny-homes-pub616dcf20
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @04:49PM (17 children)
So what's end game here? Humans that time-share a 10m2 pod, going to work at 7am when the night shift returns and sleeps all day, then coming back to the pod at 7pm to sleep and munch down anti-depressants. Sounds like preparation for the trip to Mars that we're all so excited about.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @04:56PM (11 children)
Or a Submarine with HOT Bunking. 3 people one sleeping birth.
Other cool thing about subs... they run on a 18hr clock, not 24. 6hrs on, 6hrs downtime (meals, reading), 6hrs sleep, repeat.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @04:59PM (3 children)
What's the advantage over 8-8-8?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @08:26PM (1 child)
I prefer 6 - 9 - 6 - 9. With your mom.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday November 28 2021, @10:45PM
I'd prefer someone younger, spank you very much!
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @01:50AM
The original reason for switching from 8-8-8 to 6-6-6 was to combat watch fatigue. 8 hours is a long time to do anything and the free cycling rhythm without daylight to keep you entrained exacerbates the problem. So it short term experiments, it results in better productivity and less mistakes. But there were indications that it was actually worse than 8-8-8 in the long term. Turns out that 6-6-6 is actually much worse than 8-8-8 with minor adjustments for submarine life. Hence why the Navy doesn't do 6-6-6 on almost all submarines anymore.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @06:05PM
I switched over to 6 - 6 - 6 hours as part of a crew supporting our bike rider on Race Across America (RAAM). We had plenty to do while he crossed the country (~10 days). Our schedule was a regular sequence of rotation between a motorhome and the rider-following-minivan, with the motorhome heading off the course to shop every day. With the 18 hour schedule everyone had a shot at day and night duties, and also sleeping day and night. For the event it worked out very well, we all did 12 hours working and 6 sleeping.
The previous year the same crew was on a 24 hour schedule (16 hours working and 8 sleeping), but by the end of a 16 hour shift many of us were starting to make mistakes.
After the 18 hour "day" adjustment (which was easy in the context of the race), it took me weeks to get back on a normal schedule. I was forever dozing and waking up at inconvenient times. Sort of like jet lag, but lasted much longer.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday November 28 2021, @09:11PM (5 children)
I like 12 hours on, 4 hours off, 10 hours sleep. Unfortunately doesn't fit in a 24 hour cycle.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Sunday November 28 2021, @10:34PM (2 children)
Circadian cycles longer than 24 hours are actually fairly common, probably a genetic throwback to aeons ago when there were more hours in the Earth day, with various studies having been done to study the effects of this including this one that used a 26-hour cycle. [nih.gov]
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Reziac on Monday November 29 2021, @02:28AM (1 child)
No, days used to be much shorter; here are some Handy Charts:
https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/6Page58.pdf [nasa.gov]
When the earliest life arose, Earth's day was about 15 hours.
We still see the bio-legacy with people who run on about a 30 hour day... but if you look more closely, they actually run on two 15-hour days (with a nap between instead of a full sleep cycle). I myself did that when I was younger, and its not really uncommon in kids.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @06:35AM
In 'olden times', a slightly longer cycle body clock was an advantage. The sun coming up each day provided a reset anyway and the slightly longer cycle made it easy to adjust to changing seasons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @04:18AM (1 child)
You are looking to join NASA on Mars.
The schedule is based on Mars day not Earth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 30 2021, @02:39AM
Which time zone on Mars and is that daylight savings or standard time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @04:56PM (4 children)
More or less, just without the trip to Mars.
Eventually nobody can afford to live and capitalism is overthrown.
That's not a good thing.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @07:16PM (1 child)
Better than socialism, where some people get some stuff free.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mhajicek on Sunday November 28 2021, @09:13PM
Getting stuff for free is great! It the government taking your stuff without compensation that sucks.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @07:36PM (1 child)
Compact Compact Compact Living. Coffin-sized housing, you'll love it.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday November 28 2021, @09:57PM
You mean compost living?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek