Your representative ('s staff) will take note of your opinion, but more-or-less in proportion to the effort you make.

• Click on an on-line petition: eh.
• Call and give a brief statement: okay (there's probably a dozen other constituents of the same opinion).
• Write a letter, and print it, and mail it: wow, this guy cares (there's probably hundreds of others).

It takes the Earth 24 hours to turn on its axis once. Or, as it seems to us, for the Sun to go across the sky and come back around. So at points 15 degrees apart in longitude, solar noon will occur an hour apart.

On the equator, the Earth is about 40,000 km around. So at points 1 km apart, solar noon will occur 2.16 seconds apart.

> Suspension bridges at a basic level only required a rope to be pulled across a river, and that can easily be done with a boat.

Or by other methods.

> Ellet's brainstorming sessions with his men raised several ideas that could enable a line to be suspended across the gorge; these included firing cannonballs with the line attached, towing it across the river with a steamer, and tying it to a rocket that would then be launched across the gorge. ... Ellet also took the opportunity to generate publicity for his project. Organizing a kite-flying contest, he offered $5[nb 6] to any boy who flew a kite across the gorge and secured the kite string to the other side.[23]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls_Suspension_Bridge#Charles_Ellet_Jr.'s_temporary_bridge

It's liquid enough to circulate somewhat, dragging the more-solid slabs of the lithosphere around the surface of the Earth.

> Basically a radioactive element that has been arranged to encourage it to just react a little bit faster.

They don't; there's no way to do that. RTGs just use isotopes that decay pretty quickly. Notably plutonium-238, which has a half-life of only 88 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238

Uranium-235's half-life is 700 million years. It's not even warm to the touch. Fissioning it releases much more energy than it would decaying to lead, and much, much, much faster. So that's useful for human purposes.

I wouldn't say it's a large amount of spent fuel, considering the amount of energy released. Each fuel pellet -- the size of a fingertip -- releases about as much a ton of coal.

Keep it simple -- just use numbers. I mean, there's an infinite number of integers available, so no need for duplication, right?

> Also, there's an easy fix by just allowing migration into Japan.

For Japan, that's not easy. A mono-ethnic country that wants to stay that way, a written language that's hard to learn.

> Over time though, base ten has "won" as humans tend to count of their fingers and we have ten of those. Counting with your toes can't have been practical

So the change came when we invented shoes?

Basically, they found themselves in a siege on a continental scale.

If one side wanted to attack the other, the better option would have been to go around the flank of the other's entrenched position. But the trenchworks had been extended from the sea coast to Switzerland. So....

> Hydrogen is stable and not radioactive with 1 or 2 neutrons.

You meant 0 or 1 neutrons.

> ... the world population has increased by nearly 100x since then and growth seems to be accelerating rather than slowing down.

It isn't.

> Peak population growth was reached in 1968 with an annual growth of 2.1%. Since then the increase of the world population has slowed and today grows by just over 1% per year.

Ironically, 1968 is also the year The Population Bomb was published.

> By the end of the century – when global population growth will have fallen to 0.1% according to the UN’s projection – the world will be very close to the end of the demographic transition.

https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth