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Re: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Post by RyanCavanaugh »

okdood64 wrote: post #17
pockybum522 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a strange take. Does this also apply to every soldier in the armed forces? Seems your criteria is equally applicable there. The relevant people that can do the research and write future policies based on the data obviously will have the information. Not sure what good you think that you personally having it can do.

A single soldier having a medical issue generally doesn't cancel a multi-month mission costing some X large sum of money, requiring another Y large sum of money to even finish cancelling it (returning their unit home). Therefore it's not relevant and not needed for the public to know.

What are you going to do with this information? What policy would you plausibly advocate for on the basis of it?

Re: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Post by drewda »

almost_usual wrote: post #54
wmf wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How could you keep calm so far away By going through a ten-year process that selects for calm people.

I can’t imagine any other group who would be as calm as NASA astronauts. Maybe SEALs or other special forces. It looks like there are a few astronauts that were SEALs, one returned December 9th from the ISS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim

In the US, many astronauts start as Air Force pilots.

And for the preternaturally calm and confident who don't have the perfect eyesight required to enter the Air Force, many of them apparently serve instead on nuclear submarines...

Re: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Post by ls612 »

bahmboo wrote: post #58

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I remember reading about all of the foibles of Apollo 7 and how that was caused by the astronauts all getting a head cold and being miserable and irritable, or how Frank Borman got so space sick on Apollo 8 he recorded a secret message in the data dump for the doctor to bypass the capcom, and I’m curious how this now became a pseudo-political issue.

Re: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Post by bitshiftfaced »

bahmboo wrote: post #58

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> certain groups of online warriors are convinced she is the one who is sick because of the "women are weak and can't do man work" trope.

Care to point to anything specific that leads you to believe this?

> So keep that in mind when people are demanding transparency.

Why should the (possible?) existence of online groups have any bearing on public policy like this? Probably for many policy decisions, we can find some online group that would spin it a certain way in their minds. That doesn't mean we let it influence our decisions one way or the other. Or to be precise, not any more than what the proportion of the voting population they make up would imply.

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

mrpippy wrote: post #65
bahmboo wrote: post #58

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How are they explaining away the fact that the Japanese male astronaut asked for a consult with the flight surgeon on the public loop (a video which NASA has since removed from YouTube)?

There's no basis to such claims in the first place and they don't engage with substantive discussion. It's just more flooding of the zone.

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Post by [deleted] »

wmf wrote: post #52
heyflyguy wrote: post #51

It's great we can bring them down. What a terrifying experience to have a medical issue on the space station. Kidney stone? Ruptured appendix? intestinal blockage? How could you keep calm so far away!

How could you keep calm so far away By going through a ten-year process that selects for calm people.

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Re: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Post by decimalenough »

almost_usual wrote: post #54
wmf wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How could you keep calm so far away By going through a ten-year process that selects for calm people.

I can’t imagine any other group who would be as calm as NASA astronauts. Maybe SEALs or other special forces. It looks like there are a few astronauts that were SEALs, one returned December 9th from the ISS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim

Jonny Kim was indeed a SEAL, and a few more things as well, with a CV almost as impressive as Johnny Sins:

> American NASA astronaut, physician, U.S. Navy officer, dual designated naval aviator and flight surgeon, and former Navy SEAL.

Note that "physician" here means Harvard MD.

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