SOut Africa has a narrow system for scientists who want “Overwinter” in Antarctica. The 13 -month task to an isolated research base at the top of the edge of the shelf is, says the Ministry of Environment, the “test”. The average annual temperature -16 ° C, but it decreases significantly during the darkness of the winter.
All applicants are subject to psychotritis “to ensure their ability to overcome isolation, and they can work and live with others in the area confined to the rules.” “Only candidates who do not have any negative results from all background assessments will be considered.”
But can humans completely prepare for long -term scientific experiments? The crisis that is currently facing the Overwintering crew at the Sanae IV station, which is more than 2700 miles of Cape Town.
Early of their residence, the allegations of physical assault, sexual harassment and death threat between the nine team were submitted. Psychologists and psychologists have been offered from the mainland in continuous contact with the team to guide them during the repercussions.
Perhaps the broader world was not noticed by the broader world in South Africa Sunday Times The newspaper did not publish an email sent by Sanae IV researcher, accusing a male colleague of “creating an environment of fear and intimidation.”
A few of them know how life at South Africa research stations appear in South Africa, which can be accessed only during the summer months through an ice supply ship.
Ken Rice, a physicist at the University of Edinburgh, is one of them, after winter winter at a station in the early nineties. He has gone through similar psychological tests, and even removed his wise teeth as a preventive measure as there will be no practical way to do so once on the frosty soil.
Rice’s trip to the previous site, Sanae III, a much smaller area buried under 20 meters (65 feet) of ice that has accumulated over the years. He spent most of his time abroad, giving up the nearby antennas and equipment used to measure ozone and ultraviolet light. Rice spent hours in Aurora Australis, or southern lights, danced in the sky. “The cabin fever is definitely in my case, I don’t think this was a problem,” he said.
There were differences, of course, “but it was not, anything was absolutely a right to confront as I thought:” Someone would lose it. “So yes, there were aspects that were not perfect, but we succeeded in that.”
Sanae IV, a three -scale research station based on metal pillars, was completed in 1997 and is much larger. He visited the rice when I stay. “There are very big living quarters, and I think there is a Snowker room, but there are some halls and a lot of space.” This was the only aspect that people did not realize around the station, and he said: There is space to stay away from your colleagues.
The dynamics of how humans who live and work together were effectively charm for centuries, especially during the ages of global exploration in the sea.
Antarctica is perhaps a site Most of the famous teamwork story under the feeling of loneliness and extreme tension. Ernst Schoolton’s journey for 1914 failed her mission to make the first crossing of the continent. However, personal accounts indicate that the crew remained shockingly united, although hundreds of hardship continued, including having to shoot their comrades. All 28 men survived.
A After a century, the new borders pay attention to the effect of isolation: space. With the most likely Mars missions that lasted for years, and long -term trips that already occur at the International Space Station, scientists are investigating again.
There are many alleged “analog” tasks, where people are locked up to the ground to simulate what will be traveling deep into space.
Last year, a crew of a three -dimensional printed home in Texas came out after Mars surface mission for 378 days. To add realism, the delay of the artificial time was performed to imitate communication on the ground – up to 22 minutes in each direction -. NASA did not issue details of the group’s dynamics, although the leader, Kelly Haston, said that the worst that they suffered was “Crabby days”. A separate simulation ended for eight months of Mars in Hawaii with one participant saying: “No one once used a personality insult.”
It seems that the largest similar experience ever, a 520 -day task in Moscow, was also successful, with six of their 500 artificial habitats that seem tiring and gentle but happy. However, its crew was in males because a previous experience ended in a scandal when he accused a Canadian scientist as a male colleague Who kissed her by force.
Novels were also considered from the research stations in Antarctica, a vital state studies – that the continent was called “White Mars” because of its ruin – as well as those from isolated societies. A 1983 American Psychology Study The Minnesotans countryside asked how they dealt with them and found that just realizing the concept of “cabin fever” helped people tolerate the feeling of loneliness.
SThe Ministry of Environment in Africa says that the situation is now calm at the Sanae IV base, where the recent developments conducted comparisons with another incident in one of the country’s settlement sites – The alleged ax attack On the laptop of the researcher by a colleague in 2017.
Nile Malan, a physicist of the mission who was superior to Sanae IV in 1999, said people took time to take time to get used to isolation and could shine. “But humans adapt, most teams work through their initial frictions and learn to work together effectively.”
He said that work in Sanae IV was not different from work anywhere. “Most of them are routine and boring,” he said. “Personally, I was a member of a very successful team. We worked through our friction without violence, and we are still brothers.”
He said that in the end, personal conflict may be a common humanitarian problem, whether people are on a slope in Antarctica or in an office in central London.
“I can see it as a story of violence in the workplace,” he added. “The only things that make it worth noting are that it happened in an isolated place, and that the email with the complaint has been leaked to the media.”
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