Could humans live and thrive without sunlight, provided they take vitamin D supplements? If not, could sunlight be sufficiently artificially imitated, to the point where it offers the same physical benefits to the human body as sunlight? Lets assume food is not a problem.ents?
>>8265710
Technically, yes.
>>8265710
>Could humans live and thrive without sunlight
Yes, but expect Finland and Baltic-tier suicide rates.
Why the fuck would you live without sunlight?
>>8265817
>wanting sunlight
Enjoy your melanoma.
>>8265817
Maybe nuclear or atmosphere related catastrophy makes living in the open hazardous due to dangerous radiation or whatever.
>>8265782
Good point, but maybe live HD feeds from a 'real' environment would counteract depression?:
Interesting, I wonder how the NASA deals with this in their experiments..? If they do.
>>8265782
I just posted, the reason I am interested is coz I had a serious illness requiring isolation for 6 months, all I could see out my window was one tree branch waving in the wind. It was important to me to watch it..
>>8266144
you get some pretty great views from space:
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/
I think they would survive, but I don't think they'd thrive. Then again I am not an expert on lamps, so maybe they're better at imitating sunlight than I would guess. I do think there will be some evolution either way, for sure. If not because of sun thenbfor other reasons like tolerating a much more constrained environment and a different social environment, and different air conditions. It's an open question how quickly the evolution would happen but it would definitely happen to some degree.
>>8266146
Did you get the Ebolas?