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from the the-final-frontier-is-dangerous dept.
Cristoforetti, of the European Space Agency (ESA), was scanned prior to her trip to the International Space Station (ISS) in November 2014. When Cristoforetti landed back on Earth on June 11 this year, her 199-day mission meant she became a new record-holder for the single longest spaceflight by a woman, eclipsing NASA's Sunita William's 195-day flight in 2006-2007. Cristoforetti's skin cells were subsequently re-scanned by Koenig, who explained how on the ISS skin physiology is different, leading to some surprising results.
"So far we've got interesting results from three astronauts. It seems that there is a strong production of collagen; so suddenly these astronauts have more collagen. It means there is some sort of anti-ageing effect, at least in the dermis - the lower part of the skin. And we found that the epidermis, in particular the part of the living cells, that this epidermis is shrinking, so the skin gets thinner," Koenig said.
Bone de-calcification? Check. Cancer from space radiation? Check. Thinner skin? Check. Perhaps we ought to go with exploration via telepresence robots for the time being?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday July 22 2015, @01:24PM
expect many accidents due to too long reaction time
But also expect it not to be as bad as you expect.
The human brain is remarkably adept at compensating for delays, so much so that you can do the following trick:
Rig up a button and a light, so the light lights up when the button is pushed. Have human push button repeatedly. Introduce, and increase a delay between button push and light. The brain will compensate (up to a point) so that the person thinks both things are still happening at the same time.
Suddenly remove the delay, and the next time the subject pushes the button, they will swear the light came on before they pushed.
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