am I the only one who thinks that this sounds as a big sham.
Sounds like they collect, and take of to visit the moon themselves, a bit like investing in a coffee plantation on a tropical iland which turns out to be a coral reef with only salt water.
The peak fysical condition in which an astronaut has to be is not comparable to the condition in which a space tourist has to be. Imagine: an astronaut has to manipulate a lot of instruments or at least keep watch on them. This requires the occasion lifting of an arm under 9 G or so (which is really tough) and at the least it requires staying focused.
The tourist is just required not to suffer an heart attack under the pressure shift on his blood vessels. He may pass out without endangering the mission, as long as he wakes up in time to enjoy the view.
You mention bone loss . Bone loss results from the lack of weight that your skeleton has to carry in space, this however is a long term process and does therefore not occur during a 1 day trip, or even a few days trip (wich should be approximately the duration of the flight). For fluid redistribution something similar is bound to occur. All your fluids are redistributed during flying an F16, but this is not a long term effect.
The most harmfull long term effect (as f16 pilots have them) are bad backs (long term flying effect) and hemmeroids (also long term as a result of the short time fluid redistribution story). All of these occur as a result of the constant accelerations that military pilots are subjected too. During a trip straight up and down there are a lot less accelerations (only take-off and the occasional turn).
However, you are perfectly right that you have to be in a good condition for these (and probably not too fat, or with to much fluids to redistribute).
the Dutch dicoverd manhatten, do we get some points for that? I know its a lot smaller than the rest of the America's, but it is one of the most important bits...
Unfortunately we sold it again for 1 dutch guilder to some english guy, stupid stupid stupid.
actually settlers, drifting in small boats on the currents of the ocean, have probably landed all along Americas west coast. The Nowegian guy Thor Heierdal proved this when he built the Contiki and the other boat (I forgot it's name) from material growing in the ilands in the Indonesian archipel and used this to sail across the Pacific from the Indonesian archipel. It took him two tries, but he got as far as Easter Iland.
this is of course just one of the many way's in which people reached the worlds remote continents, next to crossing the Bering street (the Inuit way) and crossing the atlantic from Ysland (the Viking way)
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am I the only one who thinks that this sounds as a big sham.
Sounds like they collect, and take of to visit the moon themselves, a bit like investing in a coffee plantation on a tropical iland which turns out to be a coral reef with only salt water.
The peak fysical condition in which an astronaut has to be is not comparable to the condition in which a space tourist has to be. Imagine: an astronaut has to manipulate a lot of instruments or at least keep watch on them. This requires the occasion lifting of an arm under 9 G or so (which is really tough) and at the least it requires staying focused.
The tourist is just required not to suffer an heart attack under the pressure shift on his blood vessels. He may pass out without endangering the mission, as long as he wakes up in time to enjoy the view.
You mention bone loss . Bone loss results from the lack of weight that your skeleton has to carry in space, this however is a long term process and does therefore not occur during a 1 day trip, or even a few days trip (wich should be approximately the duration of the flight). For fluid redistribution something similar is bound to occur. All your fluids are redistributed during flying an F16, but this is not a long term effect.
The most harmfull long term effect (as f16 pilots have them) are bad backs (long term flying effect) and hemmeroids (also long term as a result of the short time fluid redistribution story). All of these occur as a result of the constant accelerations that military pilots are subjected too. During a trip straight up and down there are a lot less accelerations (only take-off and the occasional turn). However, you are perfectly right that you have to be in a good condition for these (and probably not too fat, or with to much fluids to redistribute).
I bet you Han Solo would have thought this is an excellent way of getting some money (at least in his early years he would)
I wanna Jimmy Hendrix light saber, not some stupid Darth Vader Guitar
the Dutch dicoverd manhatten, do we get some points for that? I know its a lot smaller than the rest of the America's, but it is one of the most important bits... Unfortunately we sold it again for 1 dutch guilder to some english guy, stupid stupid stupid.
actually settlers, drifting in small boats on the currents of the ocean, have probably landed all along Americas west coast. The Nowegian guy Thor Heierdal proved this when he built the Contiki and the other boat (I forgot it's name) from material growing in the ilands in the Indonesian archipel and used this to sail across the Pacific from the Indonesian archipel. It took him two tries, but he got as far as Easter Iland. this is of course just one of the many way's in which people reached the worlds remote continents, next to crossing the Bering street (the Inuit way) and crossing the atlantic from Ysland (the Viking way)
accept for those people who accidentally hit Easter iland and stayed there ;-)
good one, but the Vikings never made it past "new found land" and I tink they were there around 800-900 AD or something like that
especially strange considering that Columbus meant to find India, so how could he possibly have a map for finding America