Re: Selenites (was Re: equinox)

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De: Pablo Flores <fflores@...>
Fecha: S=E1bado 26 de Septiembre de 1998 09:52
Asunto: Re: Selenites (was Re: equinox)


> Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> [...]
> >> 23-hour cycle, which seems to agree with most humans' circadian cycl=
e
> >> 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.
>
> Either our sources are different, or I remembered a wrong number.
> Anyway, maybe people could *vote* for the day length. Twould be a
> terrible electoral fight --  imagine if you could decide to extend your
> sleeping hours by voting on the base of the time-measuring system!
> The Lazy Sleepers and the Tightly Scheduled vs. ...
> Well, actually, who'd be against?
>
> --Pablo Flores

Or free timing, for life supporting task, work would be organized in
irregular turns as already used on Earth on 24 hours factories.  Every on=
e
else would chose when he or she want to go to sleep or stay active.  As m=
any
people does in big cities here on Earth.

If links to Earth remains active, the year, month, earth-day, earth hour
would be used for reference.  If links are broken, the year,
month=3Dlunar-day, earth-day, earth-hour woud as well be used but in a
different way, because the month=3Dlunar-day is even easier to recognize =
than
moon-phases on Earth, something like the gregorian almanac wouldn't be
apropiated.  If there were enough Judes, Chiness or some other culture
actually using a lunar calendar, that would be adopeted, I guess, but if =
the
great base of settlers are occidental christians/secular, with strong roo=
ts
to Earth with USA or EU as I thing would probbably happen if it happen, w=
hen
links broken, they would develope their own calendar.

Let's suppose they are based on English, but after there have different
backgrounds (Germans, Russians, Latin-Americans, Chiness) a new language
would be developed.  So I belive the world "mont" would be use to mean a
natural dark+light period (lunar day).  "sunfays" and "dakfays" would mea=
n
the sunny and dark phases of the lunar day.  "day" would be use for an Ea=
rth
rotation.  "ower" for an artificial subdivision of the "mont", maybe a
"mont"=3D700 "owers", grouped in 28 cycles of 25 "owers" each.  Years wou=
ld be
counted since the fundation of the colony or the liberation from Earth.  =
If
people living in the moon are not able to come to Earth, they would find =
no
reason to keep culture, but commerce.