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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
4:48:00 PM EDT
Hearing Vacation -- Go-Gos
If you think it might be fun to get away from it all -- really get away from it all -- for 17 months or so? Here's a job for you:
The European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday called for applications for one of the most demanding human experiments in space history: a simulated trip to Mars in which six "astronauts" will spend 17 months in an isolation tank on Earth.
Their spaceship will comprise a series of interlocked modules in an research institute in Moscow, and once the doors are closed tight, the volunteers will be cut off from all contact with the outside world except by a delayed radio link.
They will face simulated emergencies, daily work routines and experiments, as well as boredom and, no doubt, personal friction from confinement in just 550 cubic metres (19,250 cubic feet), the equivalent of nine truck containers.
Sounds like heaven!
There is one catch: You have to be a European to take part. But, you know. Jimmy up an outrageous French accent and you'll be fine.
Question: If you could participate in this, would you? Presuming you had 17 months to burn, that is.
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4:48:00 PM EDT
Hearing Vacation -- Go-Gos
For When You Really Really Really Really Really Want to Get Away From It All
If you think it might be fun to get away from it all -- really get away from it all -- for 17 months or so? Here's a job for you:
The European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday called for applications for one of the most demanding human experiments in space history: a simulated trip to Mars in which six "astronauts" will spend 17 months in an isolation tank on Earth.
Their spaceship will comprise a series of interlocked modules in an research institute in Moscow, and once the doors are closed tight, the volunteers will be cut off from all contact with the outside world except by a delayed radio link.
They will face simulated emergencies, daily work routines and experiments, as well as boredom and, no doubt, personal friction from confinement in just 550 cubic metres (19,250 cubic feet), the equivalent of nine truck containers.
Sounds like heaven!
There is one catch: You have to be a European to take part. But, you know. Jimmy up an outrageous French accent and you'll be fine.
Question: If you could participate in this, would you? Presuming you had 17 months to burn, that is.
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Pauly Shore will be acting again in 3... 2... 1...
-Dan
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oh, gods yes!!!!!!
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Why the heck not? I think it would be a life-time experience!
6/19/07 9:55 PM