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Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Orbit. His Body Is Not Quite the Same

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Post by taneq »

mises wrote: post #26
lqet wrote: post #23

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I heavily played GTA: Vice City during the time I learned how to drive. After I got my driver's licence, I remember one instance where I clearly noticed how my brain drifted into GTA mode while I was driving through town. I had to actively remember myself that this is a real environment and that I cannot just drive over the street lamp post without anything happening. I talked to a classmate about this and he had had…

This has been part of my concern with such things. I don't know that the alarmism about "violent videogames create young terrorist-wannabes" is correct, but it's hard (especially as games become increasingly photorealistic and physics become more and more accurate) to distinguish, I'm sure. It's a little scary to think we might have a guy run someone else over, and plead insanity saying "I thought it was a videogame"…

That's the thing, though. It's not "I thought I was in a video game, officer." (In fact that's often used as a strawman.) It's "my reflexes were slightly perturbed by the amount of time I've spent practicing an activity that looks very similar to this activity but has very different rules in some circumstances."

Re: Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Orbit. His Body Is Not Quite the Same

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

whatshisface wrote: post #35
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #33

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Or, as I always say when this comes up, start with a base on the top of Mt Everest. Much more similar to Mars, and definitely cheaper to try. With all the challenges of no breathable air, storms, inhospitable rocky terrain, bleak environment. If this seems ridiculous or impossible, then that's the state of our Mars colony ambitions as well.

There is already an undersea base for training astronauts for the ISS. There is also the ISS, which is already a significantly more challenging environment than Everest. Although it would be nice to have scientific outposts in all of these places, one must bear in mind that these things are very expensive, so the cost/benefit of the scientific value has to be weighed carefully. The cheapest option is not always the b…

So Everest would be possible? Am I hearing that? No launch costs, you can walk away if you need to (depending on the weather). Has to be cheaper by billions than an orbital station.

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Post by imglorp »

brootstrap wrote: post #31
imglorp wrote: post #15

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Just delete all your nyt cookies.

brilliant, does this work? It makes sense, great little hack

For a while...reapply as needed.

That said, NYT is one of my top news sites and I feel it's worth subscribing to support their traditional journalism model.

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Post by rjf72 »

TheBeardKing wrote: post #10

I guess outline.com doesn't work on NYT any more. Copy/paste here?

Brave browser + anti-fingerprinting and blocking third party cookies gets rid of 90% of paywalls, including NYT. Blocking scripts gets rid of 9% more and then you're left with 1% that are quite onerous. All these settings are one-click options which can be saved on a per-site basis (if, for instance you'd prefer to allow device fingerprinting by default for some reason) using the lion icon in the top right.

It also now has things like one click instanced tor browsing (e.g. if its necessary to spoof your location for some site) and more. It started out as a nice idea, but has become leagues ahead of every other browser in terms of privacy. It's incidental, and I think poetic, that basic privacy protection ends up breaking paywalls as many are dependent upon tracking users.

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Post by smeyer »

DJBunnies wrote: post #25

I would expect a body to change after a year of any circumstance.

The point is that it changed in ways different to his twin's body, and some of those changes even reverted once he was back on earth for a while. It's pretty unlikely that this is all just an anomaly and the regular changes of a body over the course of a year independent of the fact he was in space.

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Post by mises »

duxup wrote: post #38
TheBeardKing wrote: post #10

I guess outline.com doesn't work on NYT any more. Copy/paste here?

Do what you got to do, but I'd like to take a moment to say I signed up for an online subscription. Journalism is important and I'm ok with a couple bucks a month to support it.

I would rather not support the New York Times. I find their coverage to be overtly biased, and don't think that's worth giving money to.

I think the Wall Street Journal is closest to center: reporting leans left; editorials lean right.

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Post by whatshisface »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #42
whatshisface wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is already an undersea base for training astronauts for the ISS. There is also the ISS, which is already a significantly more challenging environment than Everest. Although it would be nice to have scientific outposts in all of these places, one must bear in mind that these things are very expensive, so the cost/benefit of the scientific value has to be weighed carefully. The cheapest option is not always the b…

So Everest would be possible? Am I hearing that? No launch costs, you can walk away if you need to (depending on the weather). Has to be cheaper by billions than an orbital station.

It would absolutely be possible to have a base on the peak of Everest. I think you can even get up there with helicopters. The only question is, what would be the scientific value? Astronauts do not go to the ISS just because they love living in cramped quarters for six months... ;)

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Post by duxup »

mises wrote: post #47
duxup wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do what you got to do, but I'd like to take a moment to say I signed up for an online subscription. Journalism is important and I'm ok with a couple bucks a month to support it.

I would rather not support the New York Times. I find their coverage to be overtly biased, and don't think that's worth giving money to. I think the Wall Street Journal is closest to center: reporting leans left; editorials lean right.

To each their own. I've found WSJ is fine, it gets a little simplistic at times where I find it a bit disingenuous. Too many "here's a one line bar graph that shows a thing going up 10 years after de/regulation" like that's not evidence of anything.... but that's hardly unique among news these days.

Outside of what I think are the obviously truly "biased" groups, I don't perceive it as just left or right all the time. I think there's a lot of room to cover a story various ways and not necessarily be "biased". But I certainly see how folks think that way, it does worry me though, even on HN you'll see "here's 3 negative sounding articles about this topic... that reporter is biased". Like that's not necessarily biased man...

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