If Earths rotation got longer somehow, significantly, like 36 hours instead of 24, would we stay up longer, sleep longer, or the same ratio?
If Earths rotation got longer somehow, significantly, like 36 hours instead of 24, would we stay up longer, sleep longer, or the same ratio?
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The earth don’t move at all
we would start working 12 hours instead of 8 the next day, im pretty sure
I think we’d reach a new consensus relatively quickly.
Farmers would likely be forced to work even harder to adapt.
We’d probably sleep twice a day. Like a four hour siesta
We would be collectively screwed for quite a while. We evolved on a 24-hour day, and our sleep rhythms evolved accordingly. Society would struggle considerably to adapt to such a huge change.
It would take a while to adjust. Generally people will probably need/have the same amount of sleep as we currently do, but with maybe more of a lie-in.
Most likely we’ll go back to the old way of split sleeping, where people would sleep for a bit, then wake up for a couple hours in the middle of the night (to write, or read, or have sex) and then go back to sleep again.
I’m pretty sure that the changes to our ecosystem would be so severe that at least parts of the planet would become uninhabitable,
this is the boss’s wet dream. Having the workers work for 20 hours per day for the same pay.
Human biology appears to have a circadian fudge factor of about an hour. So, we can adapt to between about 23 and 25 hour days – maybe. Research on this is hard/expensive/time-consuming to do, so it’s not well-understood yet. It would probably be a serious biological disruption, but seeing as many modern humans have a profoundly fucked up sleep/wake cycle and manage to successfully reproduce I don’t see it being an extinction level event.
A man experimented with how the human body adjusts without time cues by living in a cave. He wound up on a 48-hour cycle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Siffre?wprov=sfla1