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fire_502 
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Posted on: Mar. 22 2001,18:30 |
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i'm so sick of hearing about this damn taco bull shit. this space station was in orbit for 15 years, 15 years! the experiments run and the knowledge gained are all contributing to global efforts toward space habitation and it's all trivialized by fucking tacos! no one cares about anything but free tacos! i'm not nuts, really...i just have this aerospace physiology class this term and it's awesome and i love it and shit like this pisses me off...that people can be so ignorant. plus i just don't like tacos.
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askheaves
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Posted on: Mar. 22 2001,18:43 |
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I thought the Taco Bell thing was pretty funny, personally. Everybody was making light of the whole deal anyway. Taco Bell was even a late adapter to it. Now, the Mir detection hat... that's a little bit of a bastard.
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fire_502
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Posted on: Mar. 22 2001,19:25 |
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chicks aren't allowed to dig space? 
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fire_502
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Posted on: Mar. 26 2001,06:14 |
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as far as mir, it was ourfitted to study astrophysics, materials processing, biomedical research, and geophysics. it was the first permanently inhabited space station. it had multiple docking ports allowing for expansion as necessary. it had sophisticated equipment for physiological studies, computer automation, and was known for the large number of foreign crew members that spent time there. it was riddled with problems but it had it's very high points too.anyway, you can't just send people into space. we are still not sure of all the physiological effects of microgravity so we can't just go sending people up to charge them money to further research. most people are not even physically qualified to go. here's a list.. Medical and Psychological Tests Administered to Astronaut Candidates:
1. Medical history and review of systems
(this one knocks most applicants out)
2. Physical examination
3. Electocardiographic examinations, includingroutine electrocardiographic studies at rest, during hyperventilation, carotid massage, and breath holding, a double master exercise tolerance test, a cold pressure test, and a precordial map.
4. treadmill exercise tolerance test
5. vecrtocardiographic study
6. phonocardiographic study
7. tilt table studies
8. pulmonary function studies
9. Radiographic studies, including choleycystograms, upper GI series, lumbrosacral spine, chest, vervical spine, and skull films
10. Body composition study, using tritium dilution
11. laboratory examinations, comlete hematology workup, urinalysis, serologic test, glucose tolerance test, acid alkaline phosphatase, BUN, sodium potassium, bicarbonate, chloride, calcium phosphorus, magnesium, uric acid, bilirubin, thymol turbidity, cephalin flocculation, SGOT, SGPT, total protein with albumin and globulin, separate determination of alpha 1 and alpha 2, beta and gamma globulins, protein-bound iodine, creatinine, cholesterol, total lipids and phospholipids, hydroxyproline, and red blood cell intracellular sodium and potassium. stool specimens were examined for occult blood and microscopically for ova and parasites. a urine culture for bacterial growth was done, and a 24 hour specimen analyzed for 17 ketosteroids and 17 hydroxycorticosteroids.
12. detailed examination of the sinuses, larynx, and eustachian tubes
13. vestibular studies
14. diagnostic hearing tests
15. visual fields and special eye examinations
16. general surgical evaluation
17. procto-sigmoidoscopy
18. dental examination
19. neurological examination
20.psychological summary, including wechsler adult intelligence test, bender visual-motor gestalt test, rorschach test, thematic apperception test, draw-a-person test, gordon personal profile, edwards' personal preference schedule, miller analogies test, and performance testing.
21. electroencephalographic studies
22. centrifuge testing i don't even know what half of those procedures are, but i'm sure they are difficult and costly. i'm sure these could be narrowed down for commercial reasons but not until we can effectively rule out certain effects...but we don't know yet what is and is not affected for sure, or how or why, or what countermeasures to provide. the simplest things matter though. if you have a filling in you teeth that is not sealed properly, or has some air stuck in it, that pressure will be magnified on reentry and cause severe pain. if you have any spinal problems at all you can't handle the pressure of reentry. those are just simple ones. see how this cuts down half the applicants? i'm not saying the commercial idea is bad, in fact i think it's a probable outcome, but we just aren't ready for anything like that at all yet.
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Spydir Web
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Posted on: Mar. 26 2001,21:37 |
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wasn't MIR just in the exosphere or ionosphere? Which means it was still within Earth's atmosphere. So that means there was some O2... I'm probably wrong though Also... why does everyone always say "everything needs oxygen to live!!". yeah, on Earth. It's evolution. And I'm not saying evolution is the creation, but you can't deny that it happens. Things CHANGE to fit their ENVIROMENT. So if there's no O2, but there's a lot of helium or something, then organisms might grow to survive on helium. And this whole "water" thing people say... yet again, yeah, here on Earth. But that's cuz it was there. Organisms on Earth grew with it, so we used it. Lots of Nitrogen? Makes proteins. On some other planet the bettles or something might use piss out nitrogen or something. It's all evolution... sorry, but I just had to yell about that. I see it to much. So yeah, there is such thing as "space fungus". Andromeda Strain man  Also... what if that shit causes problems with our atmosphere or something. Seriously. I mean, they just crashed that fungus right into the earth. What if it reproduces with the oxygen levels or something and depletes ozone or something. Did they even think about that or did I just not ever read it? ------------------
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