For those of us who live in the upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, we are familiar with the yearly darkening of the skies. As winter looms closer and closer, the sun sets earlier and earlier in the day. It also rises later and later. Before too many days or weeks now, many of us Northern Hemisphites (Is that what you called someone who lives in the Northern Hemisphere? If not, it is now …) will be leaving for work in the dark and coming home from work in the dark as well.
For those of you not familiar with this phenomena, please consider yourself lucky. After the many weeks and month of winter, it can be pretty depressing to live in a world of darkness.
If I could travel back in time to when humanity was more nomadic than it seems to be these days, I would ask (demand even) that my ancestors continue to migrate further south, at least to the point where a working professional can come home from work in natural light for a minimum of 50 out of the 52 weeks a year.
You must ask yourself one main question: post-work natural light or malaria-infested mosquitoes? Often that’s the choice one has to make…
You should try getting a job at a school, since I am at work by 7 it is nice to have the sun in the morning, but I am also done with work by 3 so I get sun on my way home too. It is really nice.
But then, alas, you would change the stream of time so that you are never born and therefore could not go back in time in the first place. In which case, you would be born, and then you would travel back creating the prior situation where you are never born and therefore could not go back in time in the first place. In which case, you would be born, and then you would travel back creating the prior situation where you are never born and therefore could not go back in time in the first place. In which case, you would be born, and then you would travel back creating the prior situation where you are never born …. sorry.
Hawking told me to say that…
@ Jordo:
I told you that Hawking guy was a rabble-rouser!