From: David Cherryholmes (dmc@petsparc.mc.duke.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 09:42:41 MDT
(Raises hand)
Eight year submariner, here.
> Cabine fever is a reality, and submarine crews only do manage to
> function for a limited time, under military law. I'm sure if
> occasionally things run less well than expected, it is not exactly
> makes the news. Resident former army/navy people care to comment?
). Also, astronauts are typically
> kept occupied virtually 100% of the time -- not only because people
> LEO time is expensive.
And that's the key. Most people (the nukes, anyway) are hellishly
busy. Constantly. If you're not hellishly busy, you're trying to get a
few hours of sleep before your next thirty hour, randomly inserted into
the diurnal cycle, stretch. Long periods underway really do turn into a
blur.
Everybody does not really get along. Most people's nerves are shot,
depression is rampant, and privacy longed for. But (God, I can't believe
I'm sounding like this) all this takes a back seat to getting the job
done. Don't know how well that'd translate into a civilian culture where
everyone has this delusion of "rights."
David Cherryholmes
Duke P.E.T. Facility
dmc@petsparc.mc.duke.edu
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