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NASA planning 'suspended animation' cryosleep chamber that lets astronauts hibernate...
mirror.co.uk ^ | 15:16, 16 May 2016 | Jasper Hamill

Posted on 05/16/2016 7:07:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin

"The idea of suspended animation for interstellar human spaceflight has often been posited as a promising far-term solution for long-duration spaceflight," said Dr John Bradford, CEO of the firm.

The cryosleep system works by chilling humans and artificially inducing a state of hypothermia so astronauts can hibernate for up to two weeks.

A similar technique is already used to cool the body of someone who has suffered a cardiac arrest in a bid to avoid brain damage.

This would allow just one space man or woman to maintain the ship, meaning the spacecraft could be much smaller and travel more efficiently through space.

SpaceWorks hopes its hibernation chamber will be used during voyages to Mars.

"Medical progress is quickly advancing our ability to induce deep sleep states with significantly reduced metabolic rates for humans over extended periods of time," it wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: cryosleep; deepspacetravel; johnbradford; mars; nasa; spacetravel; spaceworks; suspendedanimation
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1 posted on 05/16/2016 7:07:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

We are $20 TRILLION in debt. We don’t have money for NASA. Shut it DOWN!!


2 posted on 05/16/2016 7:10:25 PM PDT by WENDLE (50 states)
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To: BenLurkin

NASA is grasping for relevance.

They trot these sci-fi projects out when they need a media boost.


3 posted on 05/16/2016 7:11:16 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds all well and good until the onboard computer shuts off their life-support systems.


4 posted on 05/16/2016 7:14:44 PM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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NASA Is Considering Deep Sleep for Human Mars Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxDBHLmLJ0s


5 posted on 05/16/2016 7:15:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

They could try it out on the usurper and hellary for at least the next 250 some days.


6 posted on 05/16/2016 7:15:56 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: BenLurkin

about time for nasa to put out another press conference that they’ve found life or water


7 posted on 05/16/2016 7:16:55 PM PDT by ghosthost
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To: BenLurkin

Rocket Man. Best movie ever.

8 posted on 05/16/2016 7:17:15 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

Or the one active crewmember goes postal.


9 posted on 05/16/2016 7:17:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: WENDLE
This is where some of the $millions the Clintons and others like Soros have goes.

The quest for immortality. Or the 'freeze me until they have a cure'.

Many would call this tinfoil conspiracy theory, but the ruling elite have already made it legal to kill babies and cut up the parts for experiments in furtherance of 'curing all ills' and 'trying to live longer'. Years ago, many would have said that was 'tin foil conspiracy theory', but we now know it's absolutely true.

10 posted on 05/16/2016 7:22:20 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Mission 004 Teen News Conf: Sex in Space?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFzepWiUwU


11 posted on 05/16/2016 7:24:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Didn't they learn anything?


12 posted on 05/16/2016 7:25:09 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

Remember in Star Trek the original series, when they found Kahn(sp?) And his ship, the crew of his ship were in some sort of suspended animation.

Yep sounds like science fiction.


13 posted on 05/16/2016 7:36:01 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: WENDLE
Twilight Zone: The long Morrow

Synopsis:
"Commander Douglas Stansfield is selected to be the first astronaut to go on a deep space mission. He will be away for 40 years but for much of that, he will be in stasis and on his return he will hardly have aged.
Stansfield is a seemingly ideal candidate as he is single and has no close family. Prior to his departure however, he meets the beautiful Sandra Horn and they fall very much in love.
Forty years later, Stansfield returns but it seems he and Sandra had their own way of dealing with the 40 years since they last saw each other. Written by garykmcd"

14 posted on 05/16/2016 7:58:34 PM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

“It wasn’t me, it was the hairy one”


15 posted on 05/16/2016 8:10:42 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Rocket Man. Best movie ever.

If you like it that much.... here.

RocketMan

16 posted on 05/16/2016 8:11:43 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Oatka

The Gift of the Magi. Kind of


17 posted on 05/16/2016 8:12:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oatka

We are broke. Shut that down.


18 posted on 05/16/2016 8:14:16 PM PDT by WENDLE (50 states)
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To: UCANSEE2

WEll said. Nasa is a WASTE!!


19 posted on 05/16/2016 8:20:12 PM PDT by WENDLE (50 states)
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To: UCANSEE2

Gratzi!


20 posted on 05/16/2016 9:03:14 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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