h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So what is life like on the station. Summer fun aside, 200 people, all alone during the cold, dark, very dark months of winter must be interesting to say the least?

Lets just say its a great way to find out if one is prone to insanity or claustrophobia or fear of the dark. We work six days a week nine hours a day. On off hours we work out of watch movies or go to the gym. Some people read, some do pottery. Imagine a college campus made up of nontraditional students where everyone lives in dorms and you cannot leave for months at a time. It does occasionally get wierd.

Is there a standard way by which people go insane? Are there any signs? Perhaps I should have started by asking if any one, which you've seen or heard of, gone a bit (what's the arctic equivalent of 'troppo'?) you know.... silly, beyond reason?

The standard effects which pretty much everyone gets, are a thousand yard stare and the tendancy to trail off in the middle of...

Spacers have often speculated that you could find a parallel between life on a space station (or moonbase) and life in Antarctica. People up here in Calif. followed the story about the woman researcher who had a serious illness while there last year and was stuck, because it was the wrong time of year to get her home. Too cold to land a plane or something like that.

You would seem to me to be expert in observing "cabin fever", and you might even know a thing or two about settling personal conflicts W/O major bloodshed. Would you care to say if that's so, and what people do about it? (Not like I'm being nosy or anything, is it?)

Spacerhodes

The moon is nicer on a Sunday afternoon around 3:00 PM when the telly is out and the books you haven't read yet are there only to start fires with. This place is best on Saturday evenings, always something to do, of course this week its the Kiwi's turn. This Saturday is a dress party where even the men need to wear skirts to drink, hell, if they see my legs they're gonna need drinks but I'll be drunk no matter what.

All should come for a visit, maybe I can escape without them knowing, heeheehee