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Re: Selenites (was Re: equinox)

From:David Crowell <dpctrdk@...>
Date:Monday, September 28, 1998, 0:38
I have heard on TV shows about adventurers who go into caves for long
periods of time, that they usuarally go into a 36-hour or so
waking-sleeping cycle, because they are deprived of all 24-hour day
cycle.

> 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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