Wooden Mars ark voyagers set to step out on Earth
A group of six men who have spent the past 17 months sealed up inside a spaceship simulator near Moscow - in order to investigate the problems which might arise on a mission to Mars - are about to regain their liberty. Diego Urbina relaxing in the Mars500 facility. Credit: ESA Life aboard the wooden space ark. The denizens of …
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Wooden spaceship
If they're going to make it out of wood, at least have the decency to paint it blue and stick a flashing light on top.
There's got to be a joke somewhere
...about what you do if you get wood in a spaceship? Now all we need to do is think of a punchline.
(Can't use "Go for re-entry" - the Bond team got that one already.)
That makes me wonder if NASA has guidelines for arranging private masturbation time on long space trips. If those people really went that long without an orgasm and didn't go insane, they are clearly a higher form of life.
In other news
Geeks ordering groceries online struggle with slow Internet connections Saturday night.
Who says it's not Friday?
Hold on...
...how the feck did C4 miss this programming goldmine. They could of replaced Big Brother AND Friends with equally banal and mundane shite.
well
the diary room segments would be a bit dull with all that lag (but perhaps improved for it)
Wasn't that called Space Cadets? OK, that might have been C5.
It might work psychologically
but what about radiation issues?
Besides, the stresses involved are way higher on the real trip, because the chances of anything going wrong are higher in a real ship, and the chances of anyone from outside being able to help if something goes wrong are effectively zero.
Still good that someone is still working on manned missions.
Give 'em a break - they're doing this on a shoestring.
Considering the challenges, I have to say 'well done.'
A funny thing happened on the way to Mars
What happens if they burn up on re-entry?
If all they tested was the psychological effects
Then that was a colossal waste of time and money, because that test environment is literally 250miles away from the kind of instant death scenarios the real ship's crew will operate under and the test subjects would have been well aware of that fact.
You might as well argue that people are psychologically prepared for living on a 1m squared platform at the top of a 20m pole because your test subject survived balancing on a pallet for a month.
Pop a crew in a submersible and drop them down the Mariana trench and I'll bet a few heads get broken long before 5 months go by.
"Men wanted for hazardous journey."
Maybe its risky etc, zero grav, but YOU GET TO VISIT MARS. I dunno about you, but I would take the chance...
Really scary.
Looking at the photograph, did they actually spend 520 days in a launderette?
520 days
Maybe, but it is a lot easier when you have gravity.
pay?
Must have a nice chunk of cash waiting for them at the end of the sim.
Jubtastic - excellent name!
Indeed, no way they can test the psychological stress of knowing that if anything goes wrong you are dead, or that the cosic rays are making you sterile or giving you cancer.
Flying a real mission - expensive. Knowing that there are people nearby and that they will let you out in an emergency - priceless.
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