• Space Travel May Be Harmful to the Brain.
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[QUOTE=Aide;39048830]How about it is. Considering all radiation in space caused by solar flares.[/QUOTE] Is it dark out side where you are? Then go out there and look up. Notice those specks of EM radiation that's interacting with your eyes? They're not solar flares.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Moonmir_sts91_big.jpg/638px-Moonmir_sts91_big.jpg[/img] Saw this on the wiki page, it looks so fucking cool.
Would magnetic shielding help in conjunction with the appropriate plating?
[QUOTE=Jetblack357;39052702][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Moonmir_sts91_big.jpg/638px-Moonmir_sts91_big.jpg[/img] Saw this on the wiki page, it looks so fucking cool.[/QUOTE] Earth looks a lot like that one time I tried to make a coke-float with some ice cream I found at the back of the freezer
Who cares continue exploring
Cover the inside of the helmets in tinfoil, that will do
Surely the more we space travel and eventually live in space, we'll adapt and evolve to it? In the short term, yes it may be a problem but it's a different condition we would be used to, but we have to go through them problems which is what makes our body adapt.
[QUOTE=Mr. Agree;39053052]Surely the more we space travel and eventually live in space, we'll adapt and evolve to it? In the short term, yes it may be a problem but it's a different condition we would be used to, but we have to go through them problems which is what makes our body adapt.[/QUOTE] I think it'll be kinda hard to make the human race adapt to something only a handful of people are exposed to. Edit: Oh you said "live in space". Yeah perhaps we'd be able to adapt if not we all die that is.
[QUOTE=Jetblack357;39052702][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Moonmir_sts91_big.jpg/638px-Moonmir_sts91_big.jpg[/img] Saw this on the wiki page, it looks so fucking cool.[/QUOTE] Where's the atmosphere in that pic?
[QUOTE=Garik;39053081]Where's the atmosphere in that pic?[/QUOTE] You can't see it because the photo is taken with the sun almost exactly from behind. You can estimate approximately where the sun is by looking at the shadows cast by the clouds. You're not seeing the horizon of the Earth where it turns to black, you're seeing the dark side of the Earth.
[QUOTE=Mr. Agree;39053052]Surely the more we space travel and eventually live in space, we'll adapt and evolve to it? In the short term, yes it may be a problem but it's a different condition we would be used to, but we have to go through them problems which is what makes our body adapt.[/QUOTE] That is not how evolution works.
In terms of prospects of future space flight, this sucks. But in terms of realistic expectations of taking a life-form out of it's very specific natural habitat and placing it in an environment literally no life-form could possibly be suited to, it isn't all that surprising. [editline]1st January 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Mr. Agree;39053052]Surely the more we space travel and eventually live in space, we'll adapt and evolve to it? In the short term, yes it may be a problem but it's a different condition we would be used to, but we have to go through them problems which is what makes our body adapt.[/QUOTE] Technologically, yes. Biologically, not unless we manage to survive a couple hundred million generations of change while the entire human population is suspended in space stations somehow. So most likely technologically, but not anytime soon.
[QUOTE=lifehole;39053296][B]Technologically, yes[/B]. Biologically, not unless we manage to survive a couple hundred million generations of change while the entire human population is suspended in space stations somehow. So most likely technologically, but not anytime soon.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5719/p0027w.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]200 YEARS HENCE [B]THE VACUUMORPH[/B] Homo caelestis The ultimate triumph of the genetic engineer. The product of grafting, surgery and cell manipulation, the vacuumorph can live and work in the free-fall of orbit and the airless void of space. The basic human reproductive cells were manipulated to produce the necessary shape, but extra organs had to be grafted on, including a hard impermeable outskin grown from tissue culture. The result, however, is sterile. Homo caelestis has a limited life and no future of its own. The vacuumorph cannot breed and would not survive the rigours of gravity. Without sound, communication in space must be by touch, using their sensitive whiskers. Heavy lids shield the eyes against solar wind, while a sealed lens protects them from the vacuum. The spherical shape and the hard outskin keep in the body pressure, and contain the additional organs. Protected from the harsh glare of earthlight, tinted eyes peer deep into the darkness of space. If humanity has a future, it is there that potential might be.[/QUOTE] ?
There are quite a variety of Earthly things and matters that are also harmful to the brain. [editline]1st January 2013[/editline] Also holy shit vacuumorph, what kinda twisted scientist sons of bitches would genetically do that?!
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;39053656]Also holy shit vacuumorph, what kinda twisted scientist sons of bitches would genetically do that?![/QUOTE] necessity
Boy space sure likes trying to turn this planet into a prison doesn't it? They did us all a disservice as children telling us that space travel to other worlds would become commonplace in our lifetimes. I'm beginning to fear that such travel is a dream reserved for our distant descendants.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;39054640]necessity[/QUOTE] Wouldn't it be easier just to use robotics?
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;39054906]Wouldn't it be easier just to use robotics?[/QUOTE] You tell me. But I was referring to the schema in which that picture would be a reality, not reality itself.
"billy, we have a problem"
[QUOTE=Niklas;39053171]That is not how evolution works.[/QUOTE] Evolution is where we adapt to our environment. If we live in space, we'll adapt to the adjustments eventually. I'm not talking freakishly quick like a few years :v: I mean over several million. [editline]1st January 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=lifehole;39053296]In terms of prospects of future space flight, this sucks. But in terms of realistic expectations of taking a life-form out of it's very specific natural habitat and placing it in an environment literally no life-form could possibly be suited to, it isn't all that surprising. [editline]1st January 2013[/editline] Technologically, yes. Biologically, not unless we manage to survive a couple hundred million generations of change while the entire human population is suspended in space stations somehow. So most likely technologically, but not anytime soon.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it'd have to be a very long drawn out process (as evolution usually is anyway). Eventually we'll just be too impatient for that and start using technology to replicate Earth's gravity forces/atmosphere, etc so we'll end up adjusting to nothing really.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;39055052]You tell me. But I was referring to the schema in which that picture would be a reality, not reality itself.[/QUOTE] A necessity to make it look creepy, hmm?
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;39056473]A necessity to make it look creepy, hmm?[/QUOTE] They designed how it would function, not how it would look aesthetically.
Read that as "Space Travel May Be Harmful to Britain".
To be honest we will probably just send drones to space and remote control them as we have been for years now. Once we get long range communications to speed up, this will be far more prevalent. I'm hoping quantum entanglement makes big leaps soon!
lets just put humans into stasis AND WRAP THEM IN DIAMONDS
Looks like facepunch has been to space already
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