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Re: Selenites (was Re: equinox)

From:Carlos Thompson <cthompso@...>
Date:Saturday, September 26, 1998, 16:34
-----Mensaje original-----
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=
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> >> 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.