A Conversation Between A Man and An Alien....

Man: Hi extraterrestrial weird fella!

Alien: Hi dude, how's Earth today?

Man: Not too bad Alien! Do you wanna learn something about our world today?

Alien: Yes please, tell me about this thing called 'time', what is it?

Man: Well it's a measurement of how long things last. It's made up of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years!

Alien: Cool! how does that work?

Man: That's what you're going to learn! Now let's see...how many seconds do you think are in a minute?

Alien: ....100?

Man: Nope, 60! Hard luck, how many minutes do you reckon are in an hour?

Alien: I know this! 60!

Man: YES! Well done, now how many hours do you think are in a day?

Alien: Easy! 60!

Man: Er...no, 24.

Alien: 24?

Man: Yup, how many days do u think are in a week?

Alien: Must be 24!

Man: 7.

Alien: 7? that makes no sense!

Man: Shut it Johnny foreigner, now then, how many days do you think are in a month?

Alien:.......24?

Man: Not quite, either 28, 30 or 31, or 29 in one month every four years!

Alien: What the fu....

Man: So how many months do you reckon are in a year?

Alien: Can we talk about something el....

Man: 12 of course! Stupid fool!

Alien: Fuck this shit, i'm off to a brothel.

Man: Don't forget to put your clock forward and back on random specific dates too!

Alien: Eat shit! (goes to brothel)


The Moral of this Tale
Our time-scale is rubbish! It's just a series of random numbers blatantly stuck together by some mad, drunk monk in the year 10BC or something! It makes no sense...and because of this I lost an hour of sleep yesterday when I was ill!

Let's get the time system metric...if we keep to hundreds, not only will days last longer (thus making us feel younger in the process), our way of living will be easy for all visitors from another planet to understand.

Either that or we should use star-dates like on Star Trek....coool!