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Study Finds That Astronauts Are Severely Sleep Deprived
sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Researchers tracked the sleep patterns of 85 crew members aboard the International Space Station and space shuttle and found that despite an official flight schedule mandating 8.5 hours of sleep per night, they rarely got more than five. In fact, getting a full night's rest was so difficult that three-quarters of shuttle mission crew members used sleep medication, and sometimes entire teams were sedated on the same night. Given that sleep deprivation contributes to up to 80% of aviation accidents, it's important to better understand why sleep is so difficult in space, the authors say."
Like this one? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b7lK... One thing my old priest said is beware of sex with animals. People get down and dirty and do all kinds of nasty shit to each other, but when it comes to animals, it's impossible to get consent, for things like torture and sado-masochism that things can degrade into, unlike with participating and willing humans. Even though an animal would probably much prefer being fucked then sent on its way and stay alive, than butchered for meat, we should heed his advice. There is a long tradition of eating meat for economy reasons, as when life is hard, and there is no truly edible food around, but grass and trees, you can have cows and chickens eat the grass and the worms and seeds, and you can eat the cows and chickens. It depends on how good life is whether you have to eat the whole cow, or just the milk, or the whole chicken, or just the eggs, but economics dictate not to waste meat, as long as it's killed kosher, without much suffering. Don't ever get off on skinning cows alive and kicking them around a butcher shop cement floor, as some news come out from some butcheries, for entertainment reasons, where the workers get so desensitized from having to do daily butchering and killing, that that's how they find entertainment. Or even some country farmers cutting a chickens head off and setting the chicken free to run without the head, for the entertainment of the children. That's wrong. Also the things they do to cattle that happen to be born male, and sell them as tasty tender veal, the way they keep them isolated and laying on the floor in tents so their muscles don't harden up from standing on their feet, is probably worse than fucking them. Also putting worms on fishing hooks, that happens everywhere, the worms really hate being impaled alive on a metal hook, and they'd probably much rather just be fucked then be sent on their way, even if there is a chance of getting stuck, than be killed alive like that. At the very least someone should invent a worm anesthetizer, like getting sprayed with ethyl chloride that dentist do to gums before pulling teeth, that would quickly put them out of their misery and make them feel insensitive, before they are put on the hook. That could be part of every human fisherman's tackle box, sold at the tackle shop, same exact thing that dentists use. So it's up in the air, but it's a good principle to draw the line at not fucking with animals, because of lack of consent, and just plain animal dignity. They say a measure of the wealth of a society is often best mirrored not by how much money and gold they can amass, but how well they can afford to treat their prisoners and animals, those most exposed at the lowest classes of society. For one, I love petting cats and making them purr, or playing with dogs, but I never in my life touched an animal the wrong way,(except some grasshoppers and even some worms when fishing, but the grasshoppers were easier imagining they were robots, machines without feelings, which is of course not the case, and whenever I fished with worms I tried to mug the other person I was fishing with to put it on my hook, I was so disgusted, and if they were not willing to do it I just fished without a worm, but other bait, and I never fished with worms when fishing alone.) I would be very reluctant to get involved in having an animal orgasm, even if they really enjoyed it, that's well over the line, even if somebody paid me a whole lot of money, but I'd probably do it for a billion dollars, because that's a lot of money, and you can build a hospital from that and help other people, and making an animal orgasm is nowhere near as bad as some of the animal experiments going down in biotech research labs, where the inner guts of the animals are exposed, and the animals kept alive like that, in pain, tied up, and cancer induced to study anticancer treatments and such. In vitro, that's way over the line, and I would not do it for even