lol if this whiffs
lost comms for 20 minutes they SHOOK rn
"we are on the surface" .....allegedly lmao
lost comms for 20 minutes they SHOOK rn
"we are on the surface" .....allegedly lmao
That people will travel to Mars, and soon, is a widely accepted conviction within NASA. The target date for the initial human mission has drifted slightly — in a 2018 report commissioned by Congress, NASA estimated that the first human beings would land on Mars “no later than the late 2020s” — but the certainty has not wavered, even if technical hurdles remain. Rachel McCauley, until recently the acting deputy director of NASA’s Mars campaign, had, as of July, a punch list of 800 problems that must be solved before the first human mission launches. Many of these concern the mechanical difficulties of transporting people to a planet that is never closer than 33.9 million miles away; keeping them alive on poisonous soil in unbreathable air, bombarded by solar radiation and galactic cosmic rays, without access to immediate communication; and returning them safely to Earth, more than a year and half later. Many other problems involve technical details so arcane that McCauley wouldn’t even know how to begin explaining them to a well-intentioned journalist lacking an advanced engineering degree. But McCauley does not doubt that NASA will overcome these challenges. What NASA does not yet know — what nobody can know — is whether humanity can overcome the psychological torment of Martian life.
Enter CHAPEA. Instead of asking questions about aeroshell sensor design and terrain-relative navigation, it promised to ask questions about people. For 378 days, four ordinary people would enact, as closely as possible, the lives of Martian colonists, receiving directives, feedback and near-total surveillance from mission control. They would eat astronaut food, conduct basic experiments, perform maintenance duties, respond to endless surveys and enjoy highly structured down time. This level of extreme verisimilitude is necessary to ensure that the experiment accurately determines whether human beings can thrive while living millions of miles from everybody they’ve ever known.
To preserve the integrity of the experiment, NASA has refused to disclose any additional details about what the crew will experience during their 378-day confinement, which will end on July 6, 2024. NASA has emphasized only that participants will experience “resource limitations, equipment failure, communication delays and other environmental stressors.”
The psychic perils of separation from one’s social world are well understood. “Don’t we already know what isolation does to people?” asks J.S. Johnson-Schwartz, a professor of philosophy at Wichita State University who studies the ethics of space exploration. “What uncertainty exists about what’s going to happen when you lock people inside a room for a year? Just because the room is painted to look like Mars doesn’t mean it’s going to change the results.”
The findings to which Johnson-Schwartz referred were from the last 80 years of isolation research, a field of study initiated during World War II, when the British Royal Air Force grew concerned about pilots’ performance during solo reconnaissance flights. Officers noticed that the longer a pilot stayed in the air, the fewer German submarines he detected. The psychologist Norman Mackworth determined that the monotony of the mission was responsible. But inattention wasn’t the worst of it: Monotony weakened the pilots’ competence in even the most basic tasks.
Mackworth’s conclusions inspired a series of studies by the psychologist Donald O. Hebb at McGill University in Montreal, in which male students earned $20 a day to lie on a bed in a lighted, soundproofed gray cubicle. Hebb confirmed Mackworth’s findings and added a disturbing new wrinkle. Monotony didn’t only cause intellectual impairment. It led to “change of attitude.”
At first Hebb’s students slept a lot and ruminated on their studies and their personal problems. Later they fell into reminiscences, recreating movies they had watched or trips they had taken. Some counted to incredibly large numbers. Eventually, however, they lost the ability to focus. Several students reported “blank periods” during which they did not have a single thought.
Next came the hallucinations: a procession of marching squirrels hauling sacks over their shoulders. Nude women frolicking in a woodland pool. Giant eyeglasses marching down a street. An old man wearing a battle helmet in a bathtub rolling across a field on rubber wheels. Dogs, endless dogs. One student complained of a phantom “sucking my mind out through my eyes.” The delusions made the students vulnerable to manipulation. When played recordings about ghosts, poltergeists and ESP, they were far more likely to believe such phenomena were real, even long after the experiment ended.
Hebb’s findings inspired a boom of isolation studies. Subjects were confined within iron lungs, water tanks and subterranean caves; the results were consistent. “These experiments were extremely useful to many different people,” says Jeffrey Mathias, a historian of science at Cornell University, who is writing a book about the history of isolation research. Besides attracting neuroscientists and psychologists, the research also drew the interest, and funding, of the U.S. intelligence community. The C.I.A. incorporated findings into their practice of “coercive counterintelligence interrogation,” or what today might be called “brainwashing” or “torture.”
The isolation studies were also closely monitored by the Air Force, which directed the nascent U.S. space program before the creation of NASA in 1958. Worried that spaceflight might drive astronauts insane, the Air Force conducted the first iteration of a CHAPEA-like experiment at the Air Force’s School of Aeronautic Medicine in San Antonio in 1955. Prospective astronauts were enclosed for a week within a spaceship cockpit slightly larger than a coffin perpetually illuminated by bright fluorescent lights. The airmen were assigned an overwhelming number of technical tasks and, in some cases, given huge doses of amphetamines.
Their experience followed a familiar trajectory: Initial high spirits gave way to what one researcher called a “gradual increase in irritability,” which abruptly flipped into “frank hostility.” Many participants, including a few who hadn’t taken speed, hallucinated. One pilot saw “little people” perched on the instrument panel. “I can’t say if I thought they were alive or not,” he said. “I really don’t know.” Another pilot abandoned the experiment after three hours and demanded psychiatric care.
https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-confirms-there-is-something-seriously-wrong-with-our-understanding-of-the-universe
They double checked Hubble and then added more stars to monitor and then used both simultaneously to rule out measurement error. Seems like a real potential neat twist
Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in all of physics — that the universe appears to be expanding at bafflingly different speeds depending on where we look.
They double checked Hubble and then added more stars to monitor and then used both simultaneously to rule out measurement error. Seems like a real potential neat twist
A Nova will be visible in the sky to the naked eye for a couple days some time this summer. I guess there’s trackers posting updates. Seems like it will be brightest after first hour
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nova-explosion-new-star-visible-naked-eye-rcna144511
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nova-explosion-new-star-visible-naked-eye-rcna144511
If any US residents can get to these locations on April 8 2024
Texas.
Oklahoma.
Arkansas.
Missouri.
Illinois.
Indiana.
Ohio.
Pennsylvania.
make some time for the Solar eclipse due to take place.
Texas.
Oklahoma.
Arkansas.
Missouri.
Illinois.
Indiana.
Ohio.
Pennsylvania.
make some time for the Solar eclipse due to take place.
how is this literally the only thread where you didn't post the gif?
Could only see a little bit here using my welding mask
Could only see a little bit here using my welding mask
The next in 2026 is basically only visible from Russia, Iceland Portugal and Spain. I’ve always wanted to go to Spain 🤔
By Lunatic Go To PostHave to agreeLoved being in Seville and Barcelona and just walking everywhere
https://www.reuters.com/science/martian-subsurface-harbours-oceans-life-giving-liquid-water-2024-08-13/
atlantis on mars confirmed
atlantis on mars confirmed
I was reading about that earlier this week. but it's like 8-15 miles under the surface. They have no clue why it doesn't exist at shallower levels too. I think the deepest we've drilled into the earth is like 7 miles and it takes A LOT of equipment.
ON another note, was also just reading this:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dinosaur-asteroid-extinction-meteorite-jupiter
Based on certain compounds they can now tell where an asteroid developed and determined the one that killed the dinosaurs came from beyond Jupiter.
ON another note, was also just reading this:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dinosaur-asteroid-extinction-meteorite-jupiter
Based on certain compounds they can now tell where an asteroid developed and determined the one that killed the dinosaurs came from beyond Jupiter.
You would think "we're gonna scrap our space division because we stranded people in space, and now Space X will have to save the day" would result in more than .85% loss on the following trading day.
By Fenderputty Go To PostYou would think "we're gonna scrap our space division because we stranded people in space, and now Space X will have to save the day" would result in more than .85% loss on the following trading day.the floor is gonna fall out with boeing its just a matter of when imo. blood has been in the water for years now
https://interestingengineering.com/space/highest-resolution-black-hole-observations-earth
Scientists achieve highest resolution black hole image ever from Earth
The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration expects 50% sharper black hole images from Earth in the future.
Scientists achieve highest resolution black hole image ever from Earth
The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration expects 50% sharper black hole images from Earth in the future.