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NASA never seems to have tried to tap into that experience How far have you looked? A quick google seems to confirm that NASA are talking to the Navy about thi
by codeulike 10y ago
NASA never seems to have tried to tap into that experience
How far have you looked? A quick google seems to confirm that NASA are talking to the Navy about this all the time.
- creshal 10y agoTalking about what? Recovery ships, yes, oceanography, yes, astronaut candidates, yes please; but in all the documentations about NASA's long term habitation studies (even back in the 60s, when "long term" meant "a few weeks") they never seem to mention the obvious possibility of knowledge transfer from the submarine forces. Where'd you find anything about it?
- codeulike 10y agohttps://www.beyond.com/articles/nasa-consults-us-navy-for-mission-to-mars-17977-article.html https://www.beyond.com/articles/nasa-consults-us-navy-for-mi...
- creshal 10y ago> In 2010, the U.S. Navy embarked on a study to research how submarine crews react to each other so commanders could learn how well teams work together. Jesus. It only took them 110 years of submarine experience to realize a need for that? Well, that explains why the data wasn't available to NASA in the 60s…
- dogma1138 10y agoThe fact that the Navy did a study in 2010 doesn't mean it's the first time they've done it or the first them they shared it with NASA. Also submarines are a good source of data but not necessarily a good analogy. Space exploration isn't the military, rank, duties, discipline and many other things like even the what drives the individuals are quite different. A submarine would have a considerably larger crew than a manned Mars mission. While a submarine has a very specific mission they are supported by the navy and their nation state, if they are caught in a bad situation they know that help is not only possible but would muster virtually every resource available to save them. Submariners are selected first for their mental profile rather than a skill set and trained, astronauts are usually selected for their skill set first and then trained to adapt. In general there are more people that would deal well with isolation than there are world class biochemists and geologists that could adapt to such mental conditions. Submariners have fairly basic duties, they are trained to be able to execute them under duress and the mental stress from both isolation and combat. Mars explorers would have to use their intelligence and think every day, you don't send them there with an SOP booklet to push buttons you send them there to discover so it's really important to understand how isolation affects their thinking process and creativity and what stimuli need to be created or simulated to keep their brains in working order to keep their creativity and intelligence up to maximize their effectiveness. And you could probably find 1000 other different variations that make it pretty important to do these studies on the people like the ones that end up going to Mars rather than just say well the navy has done it and their peeps didn't go crazy so we'll be fine.
- landho 10y agoYou speak with great eloquence and seemingly from a position of knowledge and yet make several inaccurate statements and in some cases, serious misrepresentations about what it takes to be a submariner.