Posted on 06/23/2017 8:11:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
I’ve been practicing and I’m getting pretty good.
You could sleep for two hundred years, travel at fifty thousand miles per hour and still not get close to the nearest star.
Play speeches from dumbocrats
"...play speeches from dumbocrats..."
how do they “wake up” from their hibernation? Will somebody be designated to be fully alert and functioning the entire trip, so that he/she can push the button to get everybody up when they approach Mars?
To my pleasant surprise, that movie didn't suck nearly as much as I expected it to.
They have a computer to do that. HAL something-or-other.
Zen Awakening ZA170
That will roll you back and perform an amazing array of different massages using roller technology and air pressure bags to hold your feet and shins in place while it stretches your vertebrae (f'rinstance) .. one of about thirty to forty different techniques ... the cost of chair is about 5K.
My "rides" have almost completely relieved me of my stenosis pain (the venturi is still there) and I mowed the two acres yesterday with NO arm and shoulder pain which AWAYS happened.
I give this account because I think the hibernation technique probably DOES work and with tubal feeding and a massage chair every so often, I think the awaked astronaut wouldn't feel too awful bad for the sleep.
As long as the dimwit that did not consider metric v. SAE measurements in launch trajectory calculations has been fired...I’d say go for it!
As long as the flight personnel are Dem-o-nauts.
Recently finished a Jerry Pournelle book series that relied on a similar technology. The problem there was that too many of the passengers ended up with “ice on the brain”, i,e, ice crystals causing small but permanent damage.
And all computer programming is NOT DONE by common core math graduates.
If we are serious about exploring other planets, we need to start launching payloads of retrievable food, water and oxygen into space right now and build a supply line.
Do it on a monkey or a dog first.
EBT card carriers are pretty good at inertia. They might make good candidates.
Just hope you don't get a computer "malfunction".
I don’t think it would be like waking up from a nap, stretching, and getting to work.
I don’t care if you put them in artificial gravity, they are still going to have the muscle atrophy equivalent to someone who was in a coma for 6-9 months when they wake up. What good will astronauts who won’t even be able to walk without weeks of physical therapy do us?
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