Scientific American riprende un articolo di Phil Plait, “On the Dangers of Lycanthropy and Lunar Exploration,” Astronecronomical Institute. Submitted to the Journal of Astronomy and Metaphysics; October 2023, e richiama l’attenzione della comunità scientifica su una questione che la NASA non sembra considerare con la dovuta attenzione.
One shudders to think of what havoc might unfold upon a crewed space station in lunar orbit. A typical lunar satellite orbital height is 100 kilometers above the surface. Such an orbit would take approximately two hours, with, on average, nearly half of it over the unilluminated hemisphere, but obversely, that same amount of time would be spent over the sunlit half.
This means that an afflicted human could change from human to monstrous canid and back again every two hours, staying in wolf form for a full hour at a time. In the enclosed volume of a small station, this would undoubtedly lead to mayhem.