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Can’t imagine humans could tolerate life in that rapid cycle.

• kibwen 2y ago
  Fortunately there were much more pressing reasons why humans could not tolerate life on Earth immediately after the formation of the moon. :)
• luxuryballs 2y ago
  yeah that’s a curious thought experiment, adapting to it from 24 hour days suddenly would be one thing but what if it had always been 4 hours, maybe we would do things slower rather than faster and there would be eating days and chore days, if we were calibrated to sleep for 1-2 hours instead of 8… or would we move faster? and there may not even be “hours” at all as we know them, maybe we would divide things up into 15 minute chunks, sounds like a short story waiting to be written, have a guy from earth visit a planet with humanoids that live on 4 earth hour day cycles and he is observing their living patterns while dealing with the pain of adapting from his normal