Could You Live in Complete Darkness for 3 Months Straight

[chrislognshot]

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/could-you-live-in-complete-darkness-for-3-months-straight-194728114.html

[Riot]

Hahaha no. The clocks go back an hour and it’s a struggle enough to not off myself. 😆

[Junglepeanut]

Darkness I could deal with, that cold for that long I couldn't do at this point in life..... maybe in my younger years....

[Heavy_D]

I struggle with winter in Edmonton enough, Sunrise at 8:45am and sunset at 4:14PM. I feel for people further north. but in summer its Light out till 11pm so thats cool haha

[Jimmydee]

I lived and worked in one of our territories, Nunavut. It’s just below the arctic circle too. In the summer months it was 24 hour day light, in the winter we would get about 1-2 hours of actual sun before it went back behind the mountain and it would stay dusk. The weather was wild, blizzards, cold, 60+km winds.

[Alexndl]

You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about...

[Cdn_Cuda]

Do you rub it for good luck?

[Heavy_D]

That Walrus is packin some HEAT haha

[Sneak Miester]

I also live in Edmonton, it is dark when I go to work and when I get off work….kinda depressing to be honest

[Luscious]

I live in England. Its always dark with the added benefit of rain haha

[Magageddon]

Live, No, but work yes. I used to work as a commercial diver is some 0 vis waters, it was a lot easier to close my eyes while working for hours at a time doing everything by feel

[Ecapnation]

That's basically winter for me... I'm in work by 630 out by 530 and my office has no windows to the outside world.

[Jonnydread]

I would be a miserable bastard for the first two weeks then I’d be fine. Just need the acclimation period

[Grendel]

Submariner here we did this routinely, especially if you were on Boomers. Patrols were approximately 3 months long buttoned up and underwater the whole time. Only light was artificial light. For me in particular I was a North Atlantic sailor and spent much of my time above the artic circle. I did 7 patrol cycles so did this on and off for 3 1/2 years.

[Miles]

That must have been a wild experience. I don't know when you served, but I can only imagine how tense the mood on board must have been during the cold war. Knowing that if you ever had to fire off the missiles, you'd eventually surface into the apocalypse.

[Grendel]

I served during the cold war and a member of the "41 for Freedom" serving on SSBN 645 USS James K. Polk a Ballistic Submarine. There were some tense times but we were so busy most of the times with standing watch, doing maintenance and running drills you rarely thought about. Funny story I got told by my CO (Commanding Officer) to stop screwing with his JOs (Junior Officers) during Battle Stations (BS) drills. When off watch for a few patrols my BS (missiles or torpedo ) was the Hovering / Dive Station Phone Talker in Control. So this meant during a lot of the drills I really did not have a lot to do but sit there and be ready to take reports. So I liked to ask philosophical questions to the JOs who were in control like, "how do you feel about playing Russian Roulette with a bunch of people who have no idea are pointing nukes at them?". Usually this particular question would come up during BS(missile) instigated by a coded radio message. We would do everything right up to launching missiles in preparation because we would not know if it was real or not yet. We would have to wait for another coded message to basically tell us it was a drill. For all intense and purposes we were ready to make glass parking lots in multiple places. From what the XO and CO told me was I was causing a lot of stressed philosophical debates in the ward room.

[gabe]

Alaskans are living it right now. Gets light at noon and dark at 4.

I got used to it and even look forward to it to some extent. The summer is so frantic trying to get all your activities packed into a 5 month timeframe that the winter is a relief to be able to chill and work on projects/hobbies for a few months.

[Blackmagic71]

I think living in isolation without human contact would be a lot tougher for three months than living in darkness for three months would be.