[Maceman]

Not necessarily, unless you consider scientist and explores mental. My husband would go just to be part of the scientific discovery.

I can understand being willing to give your life for science. Really I can. But clearly, living one's entire life in the limited social and physical environment contemplated in the article would be a guarantee of some type of debilitating mental breakdown in the end.

Human nature can only be suppressed for so long, and there is nothing about this living environment that would be consistent with human nature over a lifetime.

And by the way, would you stay married to your husband if he were selected for this trip?

[svcw]

Of course I would stay married to my husband.

My husband’s career in the scientific field has been all these years quite isolated (well while at work anyway), scientists are a strange bunch.

However, I do get your point, a person can not work 24/7, we need a respite from the work.