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Volunteer to Simulate a Mars Mission for the ESA
number6x writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for volunteers for a simulated trip to Mars. The simulation will put a crew of six in isolation for 17 months. The crew will be made up of 4 Russians and 2 Europeans. In all the ESA will need 12 volunteers for back up purposes. Seventeen months was chosen to simulate the time needed for the journey to Mars and back, as well as a 30 day period spent doing experiments on the red planet."
Four Russians and two Europeans cooped up for 17 months in a confined space? Do you have any idea how bad that's going to smell? It's going to be like feet wrapped in leathery, burnt bacon. Ewwww!
...bone loss, extended radiation exposure, and catastrophic micrometeorite punctures?
That would be a reality show worth watching...
--Gene
Mission: To provide products that consume time and energy as entertainingly as permitted by the laws of thermodynamics.
Get your ass to simulated Mars!
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The entire crew should be made up of nerds and geeks. They can do 17 months without sex standing on their heads.
Only we called it "Big Brother", and it was the end of tv as we knew it.
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Every single day, the same routine, the same faces, the same surroundings, the same conversations... or I could leave IT and sign up for this!
/. is falling behind. this is old news.
my wife was trying to volunteer me for this yesterday.
wait,,,
you know, the one that slaughters the crew.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Yes. The location for this experiment is going to be close to the LHC - which will finish in this timescale and provide the participants with the needed cosmic rays.
it's in my head
That would be great--if there were duty-free shops on Mars.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
Better question:
"When will FOX air it on TV?"
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The only thing worse is being confined to a rock with 6 billion other people for the rest of your life.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Yep, the 240-mile-high club is pretty exclusive.
And FoxNews will devote several hour-long 'special features' and 'townhall meetings' which center arround bashing those godless heathens who would have sex outside of marriage and a gravitational field.
Blar.
Europe is the bit between the UK and Russia.. :)