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Old 04-01-2009, 02:33 AM   #51 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Kamikazi Kat View Post
The idea of it has gone through my head multiple times, although I haven't really thought of it in a long while. Most of the times that I thought about it was when I was much younger.

I found reading about NASA's guidelines to avoiding it while living in a man-made space colony, where everything is artificial and predictable. It was interesting to read something like that in such a cold, technical, almost how-to-guide manner. It would be hard to live in such isolation because you would be trying to trick yourself into thinking that the world appears bigger then it actually is. But since you know you are trying to do that, it cannot be achieved. Possibly, after years and years of isolation, holding on to the knowledge that there are uncontrollable elements beyond you may not be enough and you might go insane.
NASA predict people going insane from this? I can see how it might deter from general happiness in a space colony, but isn't crazy a bit dramatic?
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