Volunteers Wanted For Simulated 520-Day Mars Trip 356
anglico writes 'Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility in Moscow, Russia, to investigate the psychological and medical aspects of a long-duration space mission. ESA is looking for European volunteers to take part.'
Re:Let them play WOW (Score:5, Informative)
It should be noted that NASA has long had a problem with the reality of space flight vs. their selection process. Their astronaut selection process tends to weed out all but the most motivated adventurous go-getters who tend to go crazy when asked to do basically nothing for 6 months.
More like 39 days just to get to Mars.. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:This is not new (Score:5, Informative)
Re:520 people, that's a big ship (Score:2, Informative)
IIRC one time they tried this, there wás a female on board, and it caused problems. But last time it consisted of 6 males, http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE52U4PT20090331 [reuters.com] . And I would not bet on having females in this crew either.
Re:520 people, that's a big ship (Score:4, Informative)
Russia has conducted shorter simulations in the past and has seen firsthand the issues that arise, including sexual harassment. In an eight-month IMBP simulation in 2000, a Russian man twice tried to kiss a Canadian female researcher after two other Russians had gotten into a bloody brawl.
Re:Make a porno (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Europeans only? (Score:5, Informative)
Since 'funny' mods don't give karma, the person who modded you insightful was probably just restoring your karma after the flamebait mod.
Re:Make a porno (Score:3, Informative)
Psst. Wanna know a secret?
If you get a sufficiently sized group with at least one person of each sex, and they are confined in a space long enough (like a simulated spaceship), there will be sex going on soon enough.
Hell, they've made all kinds of laws about sex in the workplace. Anyone who's ever worked in an office should be able to recount their sexual harassment training. Regardless of the training, office romances start, and some of them never leave the office for the cheap model down the street.
(memories flashing back of the copy room; break room, CEO's desk after hours.... oh, I could go on...)
Just because they're nerds (ya, ya, we all are, because most of us would volunteer to go) doesn't mean that they don't get a twichin' below the belt, and naughty things happen. After the first few hundred days, even the ugly people would start lookin' good. :) You may not want to see the porno of that though.