The Lonely Life in History: When Humans Must Be Alone in the World

The Lonely Life in History: When Humans Must Be Alone in the World

1. "The Loneliest Man in the Universe" (Michael Collins - Apollo 11, 1969):

While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were making history of stepping on the moon, Michael Collins had to take on the task of single-handedly piloting the mothership around the moon; every time the ship made a detour behind the moon, radio signals and waves communicating with Earth would completely cut him off, plunging him into darkness and noiseless of any kind, cutting him off from all humanity on Earth for almost an hour a cycle, the most isolated period ever experienced by one human.

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2. "Robinson Crusoe Prototype Deserted Island Man" (Alexander Selkirk - Pacific, 1704):

Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, was left on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific because of a conflict with a ship captain. He had to survive alone for four years and four months with only a matchlock gun, a knife, a Bible, and clothes. He learned to catch wild goats, bring leather to make clothes, and fight loneliness until he began to forget his spoken language before an ocean liner accidentally came across and saved his life.

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3. "The Last Man of the Extinct Tribe" (Man of the Hole - Brazil):

An unnamed native tribal man in the Amazonian jungle, the last survivor of the tribe itself. After all his tribal companions were massacred by gold miners and deforexers during the 1990s, he denied contact with the outside world and lived alone in the deep jungle for more than 26 years. Without anyone ever hearing his voice or knowing his real name, the authorities could only watch from afar, until his soulless body was found in a flame above sleep in 2022.

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4. "A young woman who lives alone on a deserted island for 18 years" (Juana Maria - USA, 1835):

Gwana Maria (known as the "Woman of Santa Nicholas"), a Native American woman who was left to live alone on the deserted island of Santa Nicholas, off the coast of California, after her tribe was completely removed from the island, survived alone for 18 years by building houses out of whale bones, hunting seals and making clothes out of bird feathers until seal hunters found her in 1853, but when she was brought back to the mainland, no one in that era understood her traditional language.

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5. "The Alone Icicle Stranded Girl in the Arctic" (Ada Blackjack - Russia / Alaska, 1921):

Ada Black Jack, an Inuit woman, was hired to join the cold Wrangel Island expedition in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. When the other men set out to find help and never returned, the other died, so she lived alone in the negative snow of dozens of degrees. Ada learned gunfire, trapped a fox and defended herself against a white bear alone for nearly two years until a rescue ship miraculously arrived to find her surviving body.

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"Isolation may be the coolest test of the human mind, but it also shows the great strength hidden inside when humans survive with only themselves as their last refuge."

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