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> But very little is known about what occurs after month six. The symptoms may get precipitously worse in the ninth month, for instance, or they may level off.
by jpatokal 9y ago
> But very little is known about what occurs after month six. The symptoms may get precipitously worse in the ninth month, for instance, or they may level off. We don't know, and there is only one way to find out.
Actually, there's a second way: call Valery Polyakov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Polyakov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Polyakov
Or a whole bunch of other Mir veterans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Avdeyev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Avdeyev
- gwern 9y agoProbably not all the relevant data would've been recorded, and as far as Kelly goes, it's not every day that you have an identical twin to serve as the control!
- rbanffy 9y agoStill, the conditions he described at the end of the article would sure be present. I remember a Mir astronaut that couldn't sleep with anything heavier than the lighhtest blanket.