Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/20/stefania-follini-was-isolated-in-a-cave-for-131-days-for-science.html
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Geez, I have social anxiety problems, but I’d still come out of that chatty AF and wanting to give hugs to everyone.
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Everyone in 2020-2021:
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For some reason my first thought on reading the headline was “how awful would it be if the day you came out of the cave was in mid-March, 2020?”
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I can’t believe I’ve had to endure Trump for five years and you’re just telling me about this cave NOW?!?
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Also discussed in this video from Tom Scott and the rest of The Technical Difficulties.
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There’s probably been a few applications for Antarctic research assignments withdrawn very,very recently.
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I wonder if these could be related stories.
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She said she saw faces in the dark and befriended the local mice, so I imagine even in solitude most people look for connection, both imagined and real.
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Australian Open tennis players in quarantine have been befriending mice too.
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I dunno. If I had to depart from civilization for 4+ months, late 2020 would not be my time to pick.
Who knows what post-apocalyptic landscape she might have crawled out into?
I swear I had seen this project written about in National Geographic, ca. 1970.
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Did she find the letters AS scratched on the walls anywhere?
Yes, but I think that one was a man? Or maybe two different test subjects?
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