Living on Mars: The Stuff You Never Thought About

Post by tomrod » Sat, Aug 19, 2017, 1:27 AM UTC

logfromblammo wrote: post #103

tomrod wrote: post #86

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> To leave your underwater habitat, you have to scuba dive or get into a submarine. You never get an unmediated experience of the outside world. Your skin touches the inside of your suit. You smell only the air from your breathing apparatus and your own breath. Forever. This sounds close to the neck beard trope, of people living in their parents basement and never seeing sunlight. Could we inadvertently be adapting t…

No. My adaptations are definitely intentional. All that sandbox-world gaming is training, for when I will be stuck inside a ~70 m^3 volume with several other people, simultaneously mining for vital resources and additional living volume using a remotely-operated robot that is not quite ready for fully autonomous operation yet. It will totally be worth lifting 250kg of human adipose tissue into LEO, I swear. If the fo…

I love it! Thanks for the great laugh.

Post by ceejayoz » Sat, Aug 19, 2017, 3:17 PM UTC

emilp89 wrote: post #126

ceejayoz wrote: post #45

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> First, you have to deal with a different day-night cycle and the reduced gravity. There's more difference between Alaska and the Equator than the extra 40 minutes Mars introduces, and there don't seem to be significant mental health issues from zero gravity on the ISS. Bone density, sure. > I'm betting the novelty of it will wear of in an hour (tops) of landing there. I know a geologist who's still getting super-ex…

> and there don't seem to be significant mental health issues from zero gravity on the ISS Wrong. The astronauts do have mental health issues. Google it.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mental-healt...

> Across 89 shuttle missions from 1981 to 1998, US astronauts had over 1,800 in-flight medical events; less than 2 percent of these were related to behavioral health, largely stemming from “anxiety and annoyance.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_and_sociological... doesn't mention much that sounds significant (and they're likely the same sort of things that happen on, say, a nuclear submarine).

Any particular Google results you want to steer me towards?

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