[rhombus]

And the US will study a thermometer.

[GeronL]

kevindavis

[Diogenesis]

[mlocher]

A group of volunteers have started final training in Russia in preparation for being locked up in a capsule for 520 days to simulate the psychological effects of the voyage to Mars.

520 days of no Oprah. 520 days of no liberals. 520 days of not listening to Obama. Sounds pretty refreshing to me.

[b4its2late]

They don’t need a simulation to find out the effects. Just round up a bunch of liberals from the US and they’ll see the exact effects.

[Pontiac]

Three Russians, two other Europeans and one Chinese national will be shut away for one-and-a-half years inside the 180-square-metre (1,000-square-feet) module on

1000 sq ft sounds like a very large space craft.

That is about 50 sq ft larger than my first house.

I wonder if they have done any engineering studies on getting such a craft out of Earth orbit yet.

[bobjam]

Do they simulate the food running out and the group drawing straws to see who gets eaten?

[luvbach1]

What? No suspended animation?

[al_c]

[COBOL2Java]

We'll have our own Mars Mission:

[A.A. Cunningham]

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