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If it was dark and completely silet, yea... I probably couldn't last too long.

If there were lights on like in the picture, of if I had my laptop to surf the net... I imagine I could stay in there for days!

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I thought the same, but don't forget about the sounds of your laptop you usually don't hear. And your heartbeat, stomach, all the abdominal noises, even your own breathing noise will start to annoy you. Let's exclude the deprivation from any physical or social contact (ok, admitted. for hackers that's maybe not such a big problem). I don't think that wifi works in such a chamber.

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