Google - Mars 500
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Google - Mars 500
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#2I am literally in awe.
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#3That sure gives a whole new dimension to streetview
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#4Isn't weightlessness one of the major factors involved?
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#5Isn't weightlessness one of the major factors involved?
I think they're just studying the isolation and group dynamics
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#6How much hard science can be done in this experiment?
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#7How much hard science can be done in this experiment?
My guess is that it would primarily focus on the mental health and social interaction - as that becomes a bigger concern for longer missions. So I guess it depends on your definition of 'hard science'.
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#8I guess Mars doesn't need women...
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#9That big juicy Go button made me expect some interactive applet. I am disappointed.
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#10If the question is, Can they meet the challenge?, I'd bet there's enough in the history of imprisonment to answer it. Some go nuts, some write great literature. I think they're trying to stack the odds in favor of the latter. An interesting literary experiment, and the first collaborative novel, they say, using Google Docs (woohoo! hopefully not also the first to use Google Translate).