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In Hawaii, a 6-Person Crew Begins a Year-Long Mars Isolation Experiment

Posted by timothy on from the hope-they-turn-it-into-a-potato-farm dept.

The BBC reports that six volunteers have begun a planned year-long stint "without fresh air, fresh food or privacy" in a NASA simulation of what life might be like for a group of Mars colonists. The volunteers are to spend the next 12 months in the dome (11 meters in diameter, 6 meters high), except for space-suited out-of-dome excursions, where they will eat space-style meals, sleep on tiny cots, and keep up a science schedule. The current mission is the fourth (and longest yet) from the Hawai'i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation; you can read more about this mission's crew here.

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  1. It would be tolerable ... by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... if the support staff didn't keep leaving and saying "Surf's up, brah" through the intercom on their way out.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  2. Bit harsh by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    except for space-suited out-of-dome excursions, where they will eat space-style meals

    That's pretty rough, making them eat their meals in their space suits.

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    systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
  3. Re:Just look at the stats of prison inmates? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And then, two-hundred years later, when tourists starts to go to mars, they'll greet us with a "G'day mate"