Sad news today, as scientists confirmed everyone's biggest worry about space travel. That's right, according to priority one research from NASA, it will be damn near impossible to conceive in space. No doubt there will be rigorous testing, just to be certain mind, but it does seem that all those sci-fi fantasies of space colonies living on for generation after generation were all so much wasted imagination. I can only think that our only option is either getting on with inventing warp speed. Or finally sorting out cryogenic freezing in an Alien-esque form of sleeping off a mere 50 or so years.
This devastating news, comes in the wake of the Mars 500 experiment to see how humans would cope with being isolated in a spaceship for the 8 months or so it would take to reach Mars. The volunteers for the research were shut up in mock spaceships last June, and limited to voice contact only. They are due to be let out this Saturday, wearing real spacesuits, to have a jaunt around in the desert, pretending they are on Mars. Sounds a bit like my childhood. Except for the part about being shut away in steel tubes for months at a time. Mine were perspex.
It does make me very happy that all this important research is going on. I mean, what else do scientists have to do with their time?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-infertility-will-stop-humans-colonising-space-2213861.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mock-mars-mission-simulates-landing-on-red-planet-2214628.html
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