• How to prepare for Mars? NASA consults Navy sub force
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[url]http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6331baae9fcb467fae893a97019c0bf0/how-prepare-mars-nasa-consults-navy-sub-force[/url] [IMG]http://binaryapi.ap.org/64aa937072464c83a28fc9b400b0ad0a/460x.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]GROTON, Conn. (AP) — As NASA contemplates a manned voyage to Mars and the effects missions deeper into space could have on astronauts, it's tapping research from another outfit with experience sending people to the deep: the U.S. Navy submarine force. The space agency is working with a military laboratory at the submarine base in Groton, Connecticut, to measure how teams cope with stress during month-long simulations of space flight. While one travels through outer space and the other the ocean's depths, astronauts and submariners face many of the same challenges. Isolated for long stretches of time, they rely on crewmates for their lives in remote, inhospitable environments. "We have a shared interest with the Navy in team resilience," Brandon Vessey, a scientist with NASA's human research program, told The Associated Press. "When you stick people together for a long period of time, how are they going to do?" The Navy research that piqued NASA's interest started about five years ago when the Groton-based Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, at the request of the submarine force, began examining ways to make tactical teams work together better. Through observation of submarine crews, the Navy scientists developed a way to evaluate how teams are performing. The study singled out important team practices including dialogue, critical thinking and decision-making and developed a way to assess how teams respond to setbacks. The research was made available more than a year ago to submarines' commanding officers, but it has not yet been institutionalized by the Navy. "If this tool can identify precursors of when a team is about to change, that's particularly what we're hoping for," said Jerry Lamb, the lab's technical director. The experiment with NASA is expected to begin in January or February. The space agency is taking a bigger interest in human behavior issues as it pursues the capability to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars in the 2030s. NASA is using a capsule about the size of a two-bedroom apartment at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to study how astronauts might perform and behave during lengthy missions. Four volunteers at a time live and work for 30 days at a time aboard the habitat, known as the Human Exploration Research Analog, which includes an airlock and is supported by a small version of mission control. Video and audio recordings of the subjects from the experiment with the Navy lab will be sent to scientists in Connecticut for their analysis.[/QUOTE]
It will be the most gay crew to enter outer space to date Seriously though you can't send somebody to spend literally years in isolation and not give them some dedicated way of relieving sexual tension, their mental health and performance will deteriorate otherwise.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48834365]It will be the most gay crew to enter outer space to date Seriously though you can't send somebody to spend literally years in isolation and not give them some dedicated way of relieving sexual tension, their mental health and performance will deteriorate otherwise.[/QUOTE] Give the astronauts a few 2TB HDDs each and tell them to fill them up with as much porn as they can possibly find. Problem solved. Would need a lotta Kleenex though.
I could do it. All I do most days is sit in here and play computer games anyways. As long as I can play Rising Storm/RO2 offline I'd be good. Maybe through in a few other games for good measure.
One, self-cleaning, blow-up doll for each crewmember, then the stored sperm can be jettisoned behind the spacecraft and used as extra thrust.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;48834549]I could do it. All I do most days is sit in here and play computer games anyways. As long as I can play Rising Storm/RO2 offline I'd be good. Maybe through in a few other games for good measure.[/QUOTE] You think you could... but, I doubt it. Even those who are selected after rigorous medical/psych exams will still be pushed to their limits.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;48834549]I could do it. All I do most days is sit in here and play computer games anyways. As long as I can play Rising Storm/RO2 offline I'd be good. Maybe through in a few other games for good measure.[/QUOTE] I think you could go online and get new games even on mars it's just it will takkkkkkke to long compared to earth and would take days to download a game at least that way you get you're hands on HL3 when it comes nah we will meet aliens before that,.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48834365]It will be the most gay crew to enter outer space to date Seriously though you can't send somebody to spend literally years in isolation and not give them some dedicated way of relieving sexual tension, their mental health and performance will deteriorate otherwise.[/QUOTE] Castrate them.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48834365]It will be the most gay crew to enter outer space to date Seriously though you can't send somebody to spend literally years in isolation and not give them some dedicated way of relieving sexual tension, their mental health and performance will deteriorate otherwise.[/QUOTE] Simple solution: Neuter them [editline]5th October 2015[/editline] FOR SCIENCE!
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48834365]It will be the most gay crew to enter outer space to date Seriously though you can't send somebody to spend literally years in isolation and not give them some dedicated way of relieving sexual tension, their mental health and performance will deteriorate otherwise.[/QUOTE] Well apparently there's a base in Antarctica that has orgies throughout the winter or something, though that could just be hearsay. However maybe stocking the space cruiser with a stockpile of recyclable condoms, along with the appropriate lubricants and restraints (kinky, maybe, but microgravity's a tricky place to move in), would help tide over the crew until they make planetfall. After all, while it's a long voyage there ain't no port near Mars where sailors can go on shore leave, so they might as well make the voyage a party. Better stock it with plenty of in-flight entertainment, too. They'd also need a rather specific set of crew members, people that they know will gel together and won't do anything stupid. Plenty of bonding exercises would be needed too, since they'll literally be stuck on the same ship for half a year, maybe longer. And they'd definitely need a way to generate new condoms once the originals are used up, since a spaceship probably isn't any place for a kid to grow up, let alone a party ship. Either way, I imagine denizens of "The Belt" won't be too picky, since they'll be a long way from Earth and Mars.
Just let them have their way with the curiosity rover. "Bi-curiosity"
150 sailors go down 75 couples come up
They are probably going to make the crew half male and half female For the sex reason alone. They may not like eachother, but out there they will be all they got. I assume after enough time has gone by the crew will start making compromises. Tis human nature.
just buy some body pillows with alien martian tits and you're ready to thrust your way to mars
Would it be a bad idea to send couples to Mars? Assuming they're both astronauts or would that be a bad idea?
wasn't it brought up when some porn site decided to film the first orbital porn that it's actually really hard to get it up in microgravity, either physically or emotionally? Granted once you get to mars it's a different story, but yeah
[QUOTE=dai;48836347]wasn't it brought up when some porn site decided to film the first orbital porn that it's actually really hard to get it up in microgravity, either physically or emotionally? Granted once you get to mars it's a different story, but yeah[/QUOTE] Quick someone go simulate this in a pool with their significant other and report back lol. That's how they simulate space walks right?
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48834365]It will be the most gay crew to enter outer space to date[/QUOTE] I have another suggestion, plenty of women with low standards but in reality for a mission and colonization you would need to be sending people to build instructor not worrying about breeding until that infrastructure is built.
[QUOTE=dai;48836347]wasn't it brought up when some porn site decided to film the first orbital porn that it's actually really hard to get it up in microgravity, either physically or emotionally? Granted once you get to mars it's a different story, but yeah[/QUOTE] I don't know, it's possible since we're going balls to the walls already, we might as well make a ship with centrifugal gravity.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48834365]It will be the most gay crew to enter outer space to date Seriously though you can't send somebody to spend literally years in isolation and not give them some dedicated way of relieving sexual tension, their mental health and performance will deteriorate otherwise.[/QUOTE] "NASA consults US Prison population on relieving sexual tension in tight spaces"
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