Re: Selenites (was Re: equinox)

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.

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