Would you like to participate in a Mars mission ?
Would you like to participate in a Mars mission ?
Noah Carter
Robert Carter
No. It would be like living in a slightly more productive council home until you die.
Nolan Howard
>mission
Sure
>colony
Nope. I don't want no J•E•L•L•O B•A•B•I•E•S•!
Daniel Barnes
Sure, I'll work cinematography for the ghost of Stanley Kubrick.
Kevin Hill
I'm pretty sure there is more floor space in one of those pod-tubes-under-sand-pile homes than my current shit apartment so count me in.
Henry Carter
daily dose of hormones, pills, and exercise to make your body act like it is under 1g.
maybe a horizontal certrifuge you lay in. get spun up for a hour a day.
Brayden Jones
What about pregnancy? Just fuck it, grow in vitro embryos with constant spinning?
Austin Nelson
There's no reason at this point to expect such measures are necessary in a 0.4 g environment. We only have experience with 1 g and 0 g, and there's every reason to expect 0.4 g will be much more like 1 g than 0 g for human health.
However, it's urgent to start experimenting with centrifugal gravity to learn about the effects of low gravity on human health. Not only has NASA been fucking around in LEO for half a century, they've been wasting their time there, studying the effects of 0 g on human guinea pigs, rather than testing the obvious way to prevent them.
Adam Nelson
Nobody knew for sure what the effects would be.
Temporal blindness, decreased function of immune system were not so obvious. Decreased bone density, decreased muscle density, well, yeah...
But it takes time to collect big enough sample.
Jeremiah Jones
We learned about that stuff from Skylab and the Soviet stations, though. It was already clear that 0 g is quite bad for your health and very inconvenient to live with. By the time of ISS, centrifugal gravity studies were long overdue.
Instead of building a ridiculous oversized 0 g station, they should have built a small tethered-counterweight centrifugal gravity station.