Posted on 05/16/2016 7:07:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"The idea of suspended animation for interstellar human spaceflight has often been posited as a promising far-term solution for long-duration spaceflight," said Dr John Bradford, CEO of the firm.
The cryosleep system works by chilling humans and artificially inducing a state of hypothermia so astronauts can hibernate for up to two weeks.
A similar technique is already used to cool the body of someone who has suffered a cardiac arrest in a bid to avoid brain damage.
This would allow just one space man or woman to maintain the ship, meaning the spacecraft could be much smaller and travel more efficiently through space.
SpaceWorks hopes its hibernation chamber will be used during voyages to Mars.
"Medical progress is quickly advancing our ability to induce deep sleep states with significantly reduced metabolic rates for humans over extended periods of time," it wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
We are $20 TRILLION in debt. We don’t have money for NASA. Shut it DOWN!!
NASA is grasping for relevance.
They trot these sci-fi projects out when they need a media boost.
Sounds all well and good until the onboard computer shuts off their life-support systems.
NASA Is Considering Deep Sleep for Human Mars Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxDBHLmLJ0s
They could try it out on the usurper and hellary for at least the next 250 some days.
about time for nasa to put out another press conference that they’ve found life or water
Rocket Man. Best movie ever.
Or the one active crewmember goes postal.
The quest for immortality. Or the 'freeze me until they have a cure'.
Many would call this tinfoil conspiracy theory, but the ruling elite have already made it legal to kill babies and cut up the parts for experiments in furtherance of 'curing all ills' and 'trying to live longer'. Years ago, many would have said that was 'tin foil conspiracy theory', but we now know it's absolutely true.
Mission 004 Teen News Conf: Sex in Space?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFzepWiUwU
Remember in Star Trek the original series, when they found Kahn(sp?) And his ship, the crew of his ship were in some sort of suspended animation.
Yep sounds like science fiction.
Synopsis:
"Commander Douglas Stansfield is selected to be the first astronaut to go on a deep space mission. He will be away for 40 years but for much of that, he will be in stasis and on his return he will hardly have aged.
Stansfield is a seemingly ideal candidate as he is single and has no close family. Prior to his departure however, he meets the beautiful Sandra Horn and they fall very much in love.
Forty years later, Stansfield returns but it seems he and Sandra had their own way of dealing with the 40 years since they last saw each other. Written by garykmcd"
“It wasn’t me, it was the hairy one”
If you like it that much.... here.
The Gift of the Magi. Kind of
We are broke. Shut that down.
WEll said. Nasa is a WASTE!!
Gratzi!
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