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Time-in-Space Record Broken
NoFrance writes "Russian cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev has taken the record for most time spent in space away from fellow Russian Sergei Avdeyev. At 748 days in space, Krikalev has an impressive list of accomplishments to his name, including : back-to-back 6 month tours on mir, he flew on the first joint US-Russian space shuttle mission, and a member of the first crew to live on ISS. He is currently commander of the ISS in a six-month stint that began on 14 April. Most impressive is his ability to deal with the physical hardships in space. In space most people lose around 1.5% of their bone mass per month, even with a disciplined exercise regime. And growing the bone mass lost from a 6 month stint back, can take a long time."
In Soviet space, bone loses you!
Did you know subscribers can see articles in the future? Holy shit!
Frequent Flyer miles he accumulated?
(And Sergei, man, I'm so sorry you had to hear about it like this...)
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.
I thought there was a problem with the space-time continuum.
what's the record amount of time spent in space by a US-American?
What? Including abductees?
Any fool can talk, but it takes a wise man to listen.
Then you would understand just how short a time 748 days in space truly is.
A simple Troll, born of Rock and Fire, leaving in the basement of my parents volcano and typing on an asbestos keyboard.
I've been in cyberspace for decades from my parents basement.
"Sergei Krikalev has taken the record for most time spent in space away from fellow Russian Sergei Avdeyev"
Man- that Sergei Avdeyev must be pretty annoying if Sergei K has to go to space to stay away from him.
And growing the bone mass lost from a 6 month stint back, can take a long time.
. over..whelming......
I hate comments like that. Immediately I want to know how long, but all I know is that it's the ever-subjective "a long time". Gee, thanks.
From TFA
"And it takes a good long time to get it back," says Buckey, adding that it can take years to recover the bone mass lost from a six-month stay in orbit. Researchers are also not sure whether the quality of the new bone matches that of the bone mass lost, he told New Scientist.
Argh! The..strain...of..finding..this..infor..mation...
*gasp*
From TFA: Most impressive is his ability to deal with the physical hardships in space.
Nah...All you need is a playboy subscription.
It would be an easy experiment. Put somebody in a small room for 6 months and make them execute similar tasks as an astronaut.
Or... take a sampling of Slashdot readers.
If there is proof (or at least conclusive evidence) that they were indeed abducted, sure. :)
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
"I'm going to orbit Disneyland!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
That's not a bad uptime!
It was a really good paper.
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> Nah...All you need is a playboy subscription.
Elvis has been in space for almost 30 years!
RIMMER: How are we fuel-wise?
KRYTEN: Unchanged for today, sir. However, the supply situation grows
increasingly bleak. We've recycled the water so often, it's beginning
to taste like Dutch lager.
Yeah, but the amenities in Russia make ISS look like a 5-star hotel and a submarine look like Club Med.
Neither. There's a click-through EULA in the shuttle's boot sequence.
If you're going to go for Red Dwarf quotes, I would have gone for: Lister: You know what the problem is. Every day it's the same old slot in deep space. No variety. Take Christmas. What did we do Christmas day? Kryten: Oh, ah, you remember, sir. Christmas day, we were attacked by that pan-dimensional liquid beast from the Mogagon Cluster. Lister: Maybe that wasn't such a great example. I'm trying to say our lives are dull, repetitive. We never take time out to smell the roses. We never celebrate anything. Cat: We got nothing to celebrate with, bud. Kryten: Oh, not true, sir. There's a whole case of that wine I brewed out of urine recyc, just lying there, practically untouched. Lister: Call me pretentious if you like, but for me, a truly great wine should not leave you with a moustache that you can only remove with turps.
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
Even more impressive, Sergei can write English better than the average Slashdot editor. He doesnt have too many or too few commas, his clauses match their antecedents, and adverbs are not nine words away from their verb. That is something the up of which he will not put.
This is the perfect slashdot story. Tomorrow they'll be able to dupe it and it'll still be true. And the day after another dupe. And the day after. And so on. All they will have to do is increment the counter... 748... 749... 750... 751...
I'll bet the editors are creaming their pants.
The Russian Space agency would probably have more accomplishments if they didn't seem to require every cosmonaut to be named Sergei.
> Immediately I want to know how long, but all I know is that it's the ever-subjective "a long time".
I could look up how long it takes for you, but it'll take a while.
From TFA: Most impressive is his ability to deal with the physical hardships in space.
Nah...All you need is a playboy subscription.
Great, now I have this image of little white globules floating all around the inside of the space station. I hope they have safety goggles up there.
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
I heard about one athlete who trained on the planet Krypton. They say he can leap entire buildings!!!
The comment has already been made. Let's move it along people. Nothing to see here.
"The Mars Direct plan calls for a maximum of 130 contiguous days in space (on the return trip) with three other people, using chemical rockets, in a relatively large habitation module which (if I recall) is not much smaller than my apartment."
I think we have a plan for the next episode of Big Brother...
As I've been saying for years - recruit submariners, not pilots. They're already partially screened for resistance to this syndrome. They are already used to living in confined spaces, isolation, etc.. etc..
Or they can hire nerds, who already know a bunch about space anyway, and also fit that criteria.
You may think I'm joking, but I haven't actually left this room all summer, except once or twice. I've been able to handle 3 months without any problems, I'm sure I can handle a year or two even.
This is, of course, given I have an internet connection.
Well I can't offer you proof or conclusive evidence, but I can offer you a California jury saying it is so.
Yeah and think about it, that's 2 years without sex...that must be a record too....Oh no wait this is /.
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what exactly qualifies as extra-russian? do you have to murder a few thousand chechnyans and piss vodka or something?
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