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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, 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.