A group of French volunteers have emerged from a cave after a 40-day study exploring the limits of human adaptability to isolation.
Volunteers celebrate after leaving the Lombrives cave where they have spent 40 days, in Ussat-les-Bains, southern of France
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The 15 participants lived in the Lombrives cave in south-west France with no phones, clocks or sunlight.
They slept in tents, made their own electricity, and had no contact with the outside world.
The project aimed to test how people respond to losing their sense of time and space.
The so-called Deep Time experiment came to an end on Saturday, allowing the eight men and seven women, aged 27 to 50, who took part to leave the cave.
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Volunteers leave the Lombrives cave after spending 40 days in the cave in Ussat-les-Bains, southern of France, on April 24, 2021.
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French volunteers have emerged from a cave after spending 40 days with no clocks or phones.
They took part in the Deep Time project, which explored the limits of human isolation.
Two-thirds of the group say they wanted to stay in the cave for longer.
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.
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April 25, 2021 by archyde
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24. April 2021, 23:37
In France, 15 people volunteered to be locked up for a study. They found the time without sunlight, news from the outside world or clocks relaxing.
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Two thirds of them would have liked to have stayed longer.
The participants lost their sense of time.
15 people came back from a cave in France after 40 days of voluntary isolation. With big smiles on their pale faces, the seven women and eight men left the cave of Lombrives in the Pyrenees on Saturday, where they had spent the last 40 days and nights without sunlight and watches for a scientific study. First impressions: time seemed to pass much slower in this isolation and they came to rest more.