On the side of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, six individuals are living in Mars-like conditions as part of a NASA-funded behavioral research study. We chronicle their mission in 360 video.
In the first episode of Life on Mars, we join the Hi-SEAS Mission 5 crew during the training before their eight-month isolation begins. They meet mission support and learn about their new home, a structure they call “the habitat.” During their mission, they will have to wear spacesuits any time they leave the habitat. Their only communication with the outside world will be by email with a 20-minute delay, about the length of time it would take for a transmission from Mars to reach Earth.
Source: The New York Times
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Friday June 09 2017, @07:22PM (3 children)
> Their only communication with the outside world will be by email with a 20-minute delay
Sure, but that door at the end of the corridor will NOT require 6 months to open in an actual emergency.
That voids most "behavioral studies" from the start: Nobody's gonna go postal, die from life support failure, or from a sudden health emergency.
A Ballistic Missile submarine is a better sim of interplanetary travel than all those nice taxpayer-funded Hawaii vacat^W simulations.
(Score: 4, Funny) by edIII on Friday June 09 2017, @07:42PM
Their missing the "Bio-dome" effect. Just add two morons and the rocket scientists will do whatever it takes to get that door open.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Friday June 09 2017, @08:14PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday June 10 2017, @01:20AM
Not identical, for sure. Temperature? They ought to be doing these things somewhere in Antarctica. Mars is a very hostile environment. Why do we "experiment" with people in one of the most benevolent environments on earth? Can cabin fever even be induced in Hawaii?
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 09 2017, @08:46PM (8 children)
IKEA engineers are pretending to live on Mars to help them design better furniture [popsci.com]
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(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday June 09 2017, @08:56PM (7 children)
Weird how that onion link got labeled popsci.com
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 09 2017, @09:08PM (6 children)
You high, bro?
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(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday June 09 2017, @09:16PM (5 children)
Oh, sorry, shoulda tuned the complexity of the post to the person I was replying to:
DUR THAT IDEA DUMB. SOUNDS LIKE SATIRE
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 09 2017, @09:31PM (4 children)
Sorry for thinking of Tor instead of your favorite fake news site.
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(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday June 09 2017, @09:46PM (1 child)
Well you should be. That's a dumb thing to think of.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 09 2017, @09:57PM
Sad! You need to smoke some dank weed, bro! Blaze up your Tor Browser and submit some fake onion news!
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(Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday June 10 2017, @01:52AM (1 child)
I made the same mistake. I was going to argue that this is the technically correct interpretation due to capitalisation, but it seems like the Tor kind of onion links are usually styled as ".onion links." In light of this, I now contend that we should assume ikanreed mistook your href for a single link from a chain that was carved out of an onion.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday June 10 2017, @05:51PM
The obvious solution is for The Onion to purchase the .onion top-level domain.