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Several days in a bath. For science.

An episode from before 2020: I joined a dry-immersion programme and received a visitor without getting out of the bath.

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A bathtub sits inside orbital rings: a figure under red fabric reads a book while a miniature visitor climbs a ladder.

In January 2020 I joined a thread about things that sounded invented but had actually happened. I contributed eight stories. One involved several days in an immersion bath.1

I had joined a programme I described in the thread as a “fork of Mars-500”. The bath was used to simulate weightlessness conditions. My role was literal: lie in it.

One day, I had a visitor: a grey-haired guy from the Apollo programme who had come to give lectures.

I did not even have to get up to receive him.

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  1. The episode in my personal thread, January 2020. The participation happened earlier; the post does not give an exact date or the programme’s official name. My introduction to the full thread. ↩

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In January 2020 I joined a thread about things that sounded invented but had actually happened. I contributed eight stories. One involved several days in an immersion bath.[^thread]

I had joined a programme I described in the thread as a “fork of Mars-500”. The bath was used to simulate weightlessness conditions. My role was literal: lie in it.

One day, I had a visitor: a grey-haired guy from the Apollo programme who had come to give lectures.

I did not even have to get up to receive him.

[^thread]: [The episode in my personal thread, January 2020](https://x.com/8hipulin/status/1215570571846672390). The participation happened earlier; the post does not give an exact date or the programme's official name. [My introduction to the full thread](https://t.me/Shipao/461).

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