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Topic	Would you do two weeks of total isolation to never be sick?
darkknight109 05/17/19 6:40:21 PM #123:	MrMelodramatic posted... No toilet. You have a bed, pillow, and light switch only. In that case I would probably fast. No eating, just enough fluids to stay hydrated. I did that for two weeks in university when I had a throat infection that was so bad I literally couldn't eat anything because it hurt too much. It wasn't pleasant and I lost a lot of weight (and I have a slender-to-average build as it is), but it's actually not as bad as you'd think. After about three days you stop feeling hungry. sodium-chloride posted... What do you wipe your ass with or is that a non-factor Rip off some of the bedding. You can keep the room any temperature you like, so the need for covering is null. Or, since we're into the "playing with technicalities" part of this scenario, just wear some extra T-shirts when you come to take this test, strip them off once you're inside and use them. sodium-chloride posted... What about urine? What happens when you start peeing more than the provided cup's volume can hold? ....I'm not sure you're fully up to speed on how conservation of mass works. sodium-chloride posted... And if you can't tell how long it's been since you have had your last meal or how long you have slept for that makes putting yourself to sleep all the more difficult. In the real world you're able to sleep because you have cues and a routine that interact with circadian rhythm. Your circadian rhythm will be completely gone when you have next to no sense of time and no way to tell how much time has passed. The only way you'll be getting sleep in this situation is from pure exhaustion. This is straight-up, flat-out wrong. Like, "not even a little bit right" wrong. They have done experiments with people where they have done almost this exact thing - stuck people in a room with no clock and no other external clues of time and allowed them to control the lighting to decide when they went to sleep. What they discovered is that people will maintain their sleeping patterns for a few days after the experiment begins then, interestingly, they will naturally shift to a 27 hour rhythm - up for 17-18 hours, asleep for 9-10 (with sleep usually broken up in the middle by an hour or two's wakefulness, which is how our bodies are actually supposed to run and how they did run in the times before artificial light was a thing - the ancient Greeks considered that period to be prime snogging time). People didn't go crazy or get hyper sleep-deprived or anything like that. Yeah, when you get out you probably won't be sleeping at normal hours for a bit, but that's just jet lag. People around the world deal with that every day. LinkPizza posted... By the way, what do you mean by everything you can do afterwards. AFAIK, you just dont get sick... So, it would be normal life for most people that arent sick all the time... Or take immunosuppressants or the like... Yeah... and that's fucking fantastic. Sure, if you're in your 20s or 30s right now this probably doesn't sound like a big deal... but it means that in your golden years you won't have to worry about any physical ailments. No Alzheimer's, no arthritis, no cancer, no dementia, no osteoporosis - all the ailments traditionally associated with "getting old" simply wouldn't apply to you. You would live a long life - making it to 150 would not be out of the question - and you would be guaranteed to be healthy for the duration of it. Forget never getting colds or the flu, that alone would be more than worth it. You're trading two weeks of misery for ~50-80 extra years of healthy living. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! <cite>darkknight109 posted [p:922033506] in Would you ... [t:77720571]...</cite> <quote><cite>MrMelodramatic posted...</cite> <quote>No toilet. You have a bed, pillow, and light switch only.</quote> In that case I would probably fast. No eating, just enough fluids to stay hydrated. I did that for two weeks in university when I had a throat infection that was so bad I literally couldn't eat anything because it hurt too much. It wasn't pleasant and I lost a lot of weight (and I have a slender-to-average build as it is), but it's actually not as bad as you'd think. After about three days you stop feeling hungry. <cite>sodium-chloride posted...</cite> <quote>What do you wipe your ass with or is that a non-factor</quote> Rip off some of the bedding. You can keep the room any temperature you like, so the need for covering is null. Or, since we're into the "playing with technicalities" part of this scenario, just wear some extra T-shirts when you come to take this test, strip them off once you're inside and use them. <cite>sodium-chloride posted...</cite> <quote>What about urine? What happens when you start peeing more than the provided cup's volume can hold?</quote> ....I'm not sure you're fully up to speed on how conservation of mass works. <cite>sodium-chloride posted...</cite> <quote>And if you can't tell how long it's been since you have had your last meal or how long you have slept for that makes putting yourself to sleep all the more difficult. In the real world you're able to sleep because you have cues and a routine that interact with circadian rhythm. Your circadian rhythm will be completely gone when you have next to no sense of time and no way to tell how much time has passed. The only way you'll be getting sleep in this situation is from pure exhaustion. </quote> This is straight-up, flat-out wrong. Like, "not even a little bit right" wrong. They have done experiments with people where they have done almost this exact thing - stuck people in a room with no clock and no other external clues of time and allowed them to control the lighting to decide when they went to sleep. What they discovered is that people will maintain their sleeping patterns for a few days after the experiment begins then, interestingly, they will naturally shift to a 27 hour rhythm - up for 17-18 hours, asleep for 9-10 (with sleep usually broken up in the middle by an hour or two's wakefulness, which is how our bodies are actually supposed to run and how they did run in the times before artificial light was a thing - the ancient Greeks considered that period to be prime snogging time). People didn't go crazy or get hyper sleep-deprived or anything like that. Yeah, when you get out you probably won't be sleeping at normal hours for a bit, but that's just jet lag. People around the world deal with that every day. <cite>LinkPizza posted...</cite> <quote>By the way, what do you mean by everything you can do afterwards. AFAIK, you just dont get sick... So, it would be normal life for most people that arent sick all the time... Or take immunosuppressants or the like...</quote> Yeah... and that's fucking fantastic. Sure, if you're in your 20s or 30s right now this probably doesn't sound like a big deal... but it means that in your golden years you won't have to worry about any physical ailments. No Alzheimer's, no arthritis, no cancer, no dementia, no osteoporosis - all the ailments traditionally associated with "getting old" simply wouldn't apply to you. You would live a long life - making it to 150 would not be out of the question - and you would be guaranteed to be healthy for the duration of it. Forget never getting colds or the flu, that alone would be more than worth it. You're trading two weeks of misery for ~50-80 extra years of healthy living. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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