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Re: Selenites (was Re: equinox)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, September 26, 1998, 7:44
Pablo Flores wrote:
> Indeed some concepts would have to be adjusted... There'd be two words > for "day" and two for "night". Common "day" and "night" would mean > "lights on" and "lights off" in the lunar city, according the 24-hour > cycle (or perhaps, if the detachment from Earth culture is total, a > 23-hour cycle, which seems to agree with most humans' circadian cycle > or biological clock).
Actually, a 25-hour cycle would be closer. Deprived of any indication of time, most people revert to a 25-hour wake-sleep cycle, and most people can adjust to about three hours on either side of this, so anywhere between 22 and 28 hours. -- "Public media should not contain explicit or implied descriptions of sex acts. Our society should be purged of the perverts who provide the media with pornographic material while pretending it has some redeeming social value under the public's 'right to know.'" - Kenneth Star, 1987 ICQ: 18656696 AOL IM: Nik Tailor