u/Kotaruchan

Saw another post by one user asking about their sleep pattern, so wanted to ask about mine too. Having had conflicting advice and info, about if it's healthy or not, so a few opinions from a sleep oriented community would be nice. Also to clarify I have no trouble getting to sleep at the times mentioned here.

So, my sleep depends if the next day is a workday or not, if it is, sleep is usually pretty short, from midnight to 4 in the morning, getting work things and clothes ready, then nap an additional hour, ~4 to 5, then off to work. (no, no matter what I'm not giving that 'snooze' up, I simply won't work right in the morning without it...)

If the next day is NOT a workday, I very often stay awake to 4-6 in the morning, and wake somewhere ~9-14.00, also if it happens to be a longer free time like holiday then all bets are off and there's no rhythm at all, other than I'm not a morning person no matter what the pattern is.

But both cases have one thing in common and it's an afternoon nap, on workdays it's ~1-2 hours, on normal weekends somewhat shorter, starts around 16-18.00 usually (Unless the rhythm is off then it could be at any one time). It has a bit of a story behind it, I didn't use to take naps, and went to bed ~22-23.00. And when driving home from work in the afternoon was usually very tired, had to keep peanuts or something at hand to make sure I didn't doze off accidentally. By happenstance some years ago I discovered if I took that daytime nap I didn't get tired when driving home after work. After that the afternoon nap has been a staple.

Might or might not be relevant, but I have absolutely no appetite in the morning, and most of my family is the same, I usually have only a cup of coffee at work, then eat for the first time when I get back home after work...

Opinions?

Every year I go abroad for family, and I usually just take my laptop with me and use that to connect to internet. But next time I go, well, my home will have a new a 10Gb fiber connection installed and I'd really like to use that instead, and the benefit of accessing my home network abroad. Thing is my connection at home is always using vpn and I wonder if that makes that option impossible?

Just watched this episode and... The first thing to strike me was how much of a dead ringer to Jimmy Savile the main creep was, both in looks and in manners. Obviously as this first aired in January 2011, it couldn't have been influenced by the whole Savile scandal. But had it aired only a year later I'd sure been dead sure where it had drawn inspiration...

Been watching SVU from the very beginning over this past year and now well into season 11, and... ...ever since the beginning of season 10 up till now, it somehow feels every episode I'm watching is a like fever dream with fantastical plot devices whereas I remember the earlier seasons felt more gritty and down-to-earth. Am I crazy? Is my memory playing tricks on me?

As the title asks, if you were to build a generation ship and solved the many issues with long space travel concerning the human body et al., how do you keep the ship itself functioning over a very long time? For example, 20-year-old cars are already rare as they start deteriorating after heavy use/time, home appliances as well, work machines, you name it, if a machine is a few decades old chances are it's either decommissioned or in maintenance hell. Heck, ISS has gotten pretty crappy and that was only launched 27 years ago and about to be decommissioned.

So, how do we build a spaceship that's still livable for unmodified humans, at least until it leaves the solar system's influence, and, hopefully for the humans aboard, even after the journey through the stars? Because we can't exactly have pit stops on the way, unless we somehow keep island hopping through the Kuiper Belt/Oort cloud..

Quite a lot of posts point out that, about the only candidate for a close supernova out there, Betelgeuze, being ~450 ly away from us would pose no risk to us, other than being about as bright as the moon.

But what about over larger timescales? About 4,5 million years ago, two massive stars in the Canis Major constellation, Epsilon CMa and Beta CMa, came within ~30 ly of the solar system. 4,5 my when you really think about it isn't that long in the history of Earth, so do we have any estimate what the risk of a supernova at 'unsafe' distance happening is over longer time?

Edit; corrected distance