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GeoSLAM Technology put to the test in Deep Time isolation experiment
May 11, 2021 By Editor
Geospatial 3D mapping specialists, GeoSLAM
, provided the technology to scan one of Europe’s largest caves, as a part of the Deep Time isolation study.
For 40 days, 15 participants set up camp in the Lombrives cave in southwestern France with no clocks or sunlight, and zero contact to the outside world. Conducted by the Human Adaption Institute, the experiment aimed to explore the links between the human brain and time, in order to gain insight into the limits of human adaptability to isolation.
Throughout the mission, the ‘deeptimers’ organised tasks to complete within the cave setting, to help structure their days. Their first task was to conduct a recce of the location.
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Fifteen people emerged from a cave in southwestern France on Saturday after voluntarily participating in an experiment meant to test the limits of human isolation.
The scientific experiment, titled the Deep Time project, lasted 40 days and 40 nights and was conducted in the Lombrives cave completely underground. The goal of the study, led by scientists at the Human Adaption Institute, was to observe how the absence of clocks, daylight and communication with the outside world would affect the participants’ sense of time.
The isolation was completely voluntary and two-thirds of the participants even remarked that they had wanted to stay in the cave longer. Some felt like they had been in the cave for a much shorter period of time. Participants used their biological clocks to identify the passage of time and counted days in sleep cycles.
Fifteen volunteers have emerged from a cave in the southwest of France after spending 40 days without clocks, phones, or sunlight for a human isolation experiment.
French study examining effects of being cut off from world finds time seemed to pass more slowly for participants as they lived underground, deprived of clocks or sunlight