Extreme 'world first' experiment has trapped 15 people in a cave for 40 days without phones or watches to explore the effects of long-term isolation with no notion of time

Daily Mail UK ^ | 16 March 2021 | Ian Randall

[polymuser]

A missionary was caught by cannibals. He was tied up and thrown into a big pot. The cannibals were chopping up vegetables and throwing them into the pot with the missionary.

When they lit the fire under the pot, the missionary said “You can’t stew me. I’m a friar.”

[cyclotic]

:)

[steve86]

This is different because their declared sexual identities will be monitored over the course of the experiment. It is expected that certain participants might see as many as three or four reversals by the conclusion of the study.

[Mariner]

I wonder if they’ll all come out alive.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

My first thought was of Peruvian miners trapped underground a few years back.

[polymuser]

“It is expected that certain participants might see as many as three or four reversals by the conclusion of the study.”

“I am soooooooo excited! I get to go around the world in 40 days. In a cave! How cool is THAT?!”

[joethedrummer]

LOL!!!!

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Boring... they need to introduce a cave monster to make it interesting.

[Vermont Lt]

This has been done in space, in subs, and in my bachelor pad back in 1983. No one ever entered that place.

[ctdonath2]

Was done decades ago. Upshot: humans have a natural 25-hour sleep cycle.

[shanover]

What is old is new. Why have a asinine experiment when the true social experiment is being lived in the Corona era. I also don’t think it is hard to predict what happens when a typical moron has no electronics.

[Ikeon]

another waste of money...The US navy has been doing it since the 60’s... ever heard of submarine duty? 70,80,90, 100+ days without contacting the outside world... the astronauts had better contact with the world than any sub sailor

[wildcard_redneck]

They should’ve just went and filmed at their local DMV.

[Ikeon]

Glad to see the Navy sub sailors are represented..

[MomwithHope]

In 95% humidity after about a week I would have pneumonia.

[algore]

it all depends what is growing on the walls of the cave...

could end up being pretty trippy

[ReaganGeneration2]

And this plan, you say 10 women to every man?

[ReaganGeneration2]

Hard to tell from the pictures, but some of the women might even be over “5”. But, let’s face it, two weeks in a cave and they’re all in the No-Go zone on the Crazy Axis.

[KC_Lion]

Oh, great. Human Experimentation.

Thank you for the link.

[BenLurkin]

“It was just me and a thousand guinea pigs. They turned...carnivorous.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVPNouEhGV4