Your comment and related material you kindly linked for me are very helpful and I am making my way through it carefully. I see that you have noted that there is a possibility that decisions made now may restrict our ability to make better decisions down the line, which mitigates against the commonly held opinion that the system of time won't fail until so long in the future that discussion of changing it is some combination of unreasonable vanity and hubris.

My concern is that there seems to be no acknowledgment by popularly elected officials that there is a decision making element involved here, one that could have serious consequences for law makers and their constituents, and that there doesn't seem to be a clear way in which these matters are being resolved. The science does not seem to be tending toward more agreement, but seems rather to be stalled in a state of pockets of view. I would casually note that in this civilization the variety of activities demanding coordination among peoples is outdistancing the social infrastructure of science in which time keeping is cooked up, and that such a condition is unpredictable, and dangerously likely to produce catastrophe. I for one accept that this situation calls for attention from the less technical, more official, components of society, so that time gets the full attention of both, through demands to be made on the technical components by the official ones. This is how we got to the moon.

Thanks again for your duly condensed comment, and the accompanying link. You have encouraged me in my thinking about this.

Thank you for your correspondence.
James Batek
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Unfortunately, when I did try to kiss her on the lips she turned away. I'm going to post about it now. It's now an off-state and with this kind of dynamic it looks like it will stay this way.

Thank you for your correspondence.
James Batek
My blog.
My bike trip journals.
My art.

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