Bauge indicated he'd post about twice a week here, in his forum.

He last posted on the 13th. It's now late on the 18th. That's 5 days.

I assumed that he meant he'd post twice a week at intervals spread out during the week. That means at least one post every 3 or 4 days. We're now over that limit.

Therefore, the most visitors can now expect to get updates on Bauge's progress is once a week-- that's what I'm looking for now.

As well, Bauge has not posted a link to this forum from CryoNet for as many days.

Bauge has indicated that he posts voluminously in short 2 or 3 day bursts. I'll assume that these bursts occur, on average, once a month.

For the occasional reader who drops in here, I would expect Bauge to post updates and responses before the end of the month, if not before the end of the week.

Then, in August, I would expect one or two bursts at unpredictable intervals in THAT month. That's the best pattern I'm able to detect so far.

Bauge hasn't announced that he's dropping his Australian effort altogether, but he hasn't posted here in a week and I haven't heard from him AND he hasn't posted to CryoNet.

I'll wait till the end of the month until I email him and see what's going on.

The Norway Midsummer (high latitude) days are very very long. Their effect on people is well-documented (cf. the relevant episode of the TV series Northern Exposure).

Help me out here. Don't make me look for it. What's with the effect on human psychology or physiology from longer days, as in Norway?

The episode has the newcomer to Alaska very much enjoying the 24 hiur days. He seems to have all sorts of energy and hardly ever sleeps. He does this and that...all the natives tell him that he is under the effect of the long days at midsummer. He doesn't believe them. He just keeps on turning and burning. Then, when the 24 hour days stop (Sometime shortly after midsummer (June 21 of course)), he crashes with vengeance and just sleeps for about a week. I assume that the crash period would be sometime in July maybe

It's hard to believe that Norweigians wouldn't have figured out how to alleviate this type of thing with a good curtain to block out light and perhaps some melatonin or 5HTP which is a melatonin precursor. Sounds like the opposite of the winter time problem with very short days. In that case, full spectrum lighting could help.

But you're probably right, this is what's going on it seems.

After having assisted for more than a month, it became clear that nothing more could be done without the permission of the dead mans wife, and she wouldn't let her daughter exhume and freeze the father, thus there wasn't more to be done.

Sincerely,
Trygve Bauge

Ps. To Potvin et. al. Next time look for a natural explanation, rather than conjuring up things about the Norwegian Summer's effect on people.
Your ideas about the midnight sun's effect on people are not more than urban legends.
Besides, I live in the souhtern Norway, and we do not have midnight sun here.
As a child I lived further north in Trondhjem.
No midnight sun there either, but quite light Summer nights. No problem at all, most people have window blends, a kind of pulldown curtains.

I've previously suggested that Trygve may sugger from mania - bouts of immense energy (and wild thoughts/actions) followed by a depressive 'crash'.

Simon

As most of us know, any form of business-- profit or non-profit, requires steady attention, as from a captain at the helm of a ship. If what Simon Carter suggests is true, then Bauge won't be able to carry forward the project he's been talking about, much less work with anyone.

If it's NOT true, and seasons in Norway affect people this way, then it's STILL not possible to carry a project forward.

If NEITHER of things are true, which is what I was leaning toward, then long periods of absence with bursts of contant activity simply, at the very least, isn't very helpful in carrying a project forward.

In ALL cases, resolving the details of an issue like this, in a business like way, requires somebody be "in the office" from nine to five. Since there's nobody "in", there's no sense in me waiting around.

So I'm outta here. I think the issue has been resolved, in my mind. There were pretty good relevent posts from Darwin and Perry a few days ago and that, combined with some other thinking on the issue, including the external records idea, provides me with enough material for a summary, if I get inspired to do one.

I'm going to give this case some distance for now. If anyone needs me to comment or moderate here (I have access to edit control features), let me know at rbpotvin@webtv.net Otherwise, I'll be back in roughly one month intervals or so.

Thanks to all who participated here.

The reason why I stopped posting on the Australian case, is very simple:
The Australian lady didn't get her mother's permission to proceed with the exhumination and cryonic suspension of her father.
Thus there wasn't more to report.
A summary or case conclusion was posted to the Cryonet at the time.

Sincerely Trygve