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NASA missed an opportunity not conducting the study over the last 15 months. They could have recruited hundreds of millions of study participants with no additi
by napier 5y ago
NASA missed an opportunity not conducting the study over the last 15 months. They could have recruited hundreds of millions of study participants with no additional costs or fundamental behavior alterations required.
- yreg 5y agoI wouldn't be so sure that the next 12 months will be too much different.
- FatalLogic 5y agoOne difference is that many potential participants in this experiment will have been living a somewhat restricted life for the past 15 months and will be less willing than usual to continue that experience
- hereforphone 5y agoNot being able to go to your favorite cafe / restaurant as frequently != being confined in a windowless structure
- dylan604 5y agoWhy does it need to be windowless? You could have windows looking out at arid landscapes of Mars. You'd see sunsets, sunrises, highnoon, etc. You could even see the local "weather".
- hereforphone 5y agoThis is what was described about this simulation
- dylan604 5y agoI get that, I'm just saying why does it need to not have windows?
- hereforphone 5y agoI can only guess because I haven't read much into it. I think that they're trying to simulate the feeling of isolation one might experience on Mars. From an article it also seems like they will severely limit your contact with friends / family as well, presumably for the same purpose.
- Valgrim 5y agoI could see them simulate a severely constrained internet access, with limited bandwidth and minutes-long ping.
- dylan604 5y agoYeah, I think total cut off is weird. Maybe allow for it most of the time, but do "tests" where the signal is lost due to high winds damaging an antenna. Then the people have to don space suits to put it back together, etc. Otherwise, a compress collection of text only messages wouldn't be that big of a deal to send back and forth would it? Maybe a couple of images each day? Hell, we receive images from Mars daily now. Sometimes, these "tests" are unnecessarily obtuse. I understand, test the most extreme, but sometimes that unlikely extreme is enough to cause people to not care.
- rbanffy 5y agoA lot of gamers would be perfectly happy with this setting.
- paulpauper 5y agoYeah they could have done it in Italy too