At 02:06 AM 5/24/01 -0000 Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>This is interesting, because, since Stratos has no orbital
>inclination, day and night should have the same duration,
>so what can explain the fact the Sun sets [say] one hour
>after the "3/4 day" marked by the Clock?
I did not really understand all of this, but here are two thoughts:
1) On Earth, the day change occurs in the middle of the night. Thus, if
day and night are equal, 1/4 day is dawn and 3/4 day is dusk. It would
not seem unreasonable that the last bits of sun are still visible up to an
hour after the official onset of "sunset."
2) There is no a priori reason for the day to change in the *middle* of the
night. After all, on Earth, it is quite common for activity to continue
to midnight and even later. By pushing the day change to the equivalent
of our 1am or 2am, the Founders could have ensured that very few people
were up and about at day change each night.
JDG
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