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Another, far more grounded and cynical take on this experiment, from 2 weeks ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17381025 https://news.ycombinator.com/it
by huhtenberg 8y ago
Another, far more grounded and cynical take on this experiment, from 2 weeks ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17381025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17381025
- gwern 8y agoThat's about a totally different simulation, isn't it?
- huhtenberg 8y agoOh, damn, my bad. You are 100% right!
- rory096 8y agoYes, though HERA is mentioned briefly in that article (regarding the evacuation during Hurricane Harvey) and HI-SEAS is mentioned briefly in this one (as a similar program). The main difference, from what I can tell, is that HI-SEAS simulates a Mars surface habitat (with a 20-minute one-way radio delay) while HERA simulates a crew inhabiting a spacecraft (with steadily increasing radio delays until the 'asteroid' 5 light-minutes away is reached, then decreasing as the 'spacecraft' heads home).