Board index › Topical Discussion › Computers, Math, Science, and Technology

Aspies in space

Page 2 of 2 [ 23 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2

Previous topic | Next topic

1024
Sea Gull
Sea Gull

User avatar

Joined: 13 Dec 2013
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 231

02 Oct 2014, 10:38 am

shutterbug55 wrote:
I am sure NASA has figured it out, but sending a pair into space for any length of time is probably a bad idea. Three minimum. That way there is always an interested party as a referee.

I'd say the opposite. With 3 there is too much opportunity for two to turn against the third. With 2 they have to stick to each other.


_________________
Maths student. Somewhere between NT and ASD.


ruveyn
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 21 Sep 2008
Age: 89
Gender: Male
Posts: 31,502
Location: New Jersey

03 Oct 2014, 12:34 pm

1024 wrote:
shutterbug55 wrote:
I am sure NASA has figured it out, but sending a pair into space for any length of time is probably a bad idea. Three minimum. That way there is always an interested party as a referee.

I'd say the opposite. With 3 there is too much opportunity for two to turn against the third. With 2 they have to stick to each other.


Two is company. Three is a crowd.

ruveyn



naturalplastic
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Age: 71
Gender: Male
Posts: 35,189
Location: temperate zone

03 Oct 2014, 5:49 pm

ruveyn wrote:
1024 wrote:
shutterbug55 wrote:
I am sure NASA has figured it out, but sending a pair into space for any length of time is probably a bad idea. Three minimum. That way there is always an interested party as a referee.

I'd say the opposite. With 3 there is too much opportunity for two to turn against the third. With 2 they have to stick to each other.


Two is company. Three is a crowd.

ruveyn


In romance.

We're talking about a nonromantic job relationship to which that saying isnt meant to apply.



Last edited by naturalplastic on 03 Oct 2014, 5:54 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Jono
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 10 Jul 2008
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Posts: 5,677
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

03 Oct 2014, 5:50 pm

Verax wrote:
I was listening to a scifi radio show that had the premise that NTs would go nuts on long space flights (10+ years). The story had schizophrenic crews, lesbian crews, etc etc, all with the same result. Got me thinking, if you put two hot aspies in a tin can, surely that would work.

I was wondering how others think they would fair being in a tin can for 10 years with an attractive aspie with nothing to do but repair space craft systems, talk non-stop about their favorite subject, and have lots of sex, all with no NTs around to deal with?


Aspies cannot qualify as astronauts. There are specific physical and mental criteria that you must satisfy before you can qualify to become astronaut candidate.



beneficii
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 10 May 2005
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Posts: 7,245

03 Oct 2014, 11:14 pm

Verax wrote:
OK, we'll make it spin Bab5 style and have no windows so you don't look out and get motion sickness.

I can kind of relate cause I'm sensitive to G-force changes too. And jumping out of perfectly good plane and bridge.....don't get me started.

But the story was set in the future so prob artificial gav, inertial dampeners etc would be implied.


Artificial gravity is feasible via the use of a large rotating ship so once launch costs go down enough such ships would be feasible to build, but science seems to leave no room for inertial dampeners.


_________________
"You have a responsibility to consider all sides of a problem and a responsibility to make a judgment and a responsibility to care for all involved." --Ian Danskin


beneficii
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 10 May 2005
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Posts: 7,245

03 Oct 2014, 11:18 pm

Jono wrote:
Verax wrote:
I was listening to a scifi radio show that had the premise that NTs would go nuts on long space flights (10+ years). The story had schizophrenic crews, lesbian crews, etc etc, all with the same result. Got me thinking, if you put two hot aspies in a tin can, surely that would work.

I was wondering how others think they would fair being in a tin can for 10 years with an attractive aspie with nothing to do but repair space craft systems, talk non-stop about their favorite subject, and have lots of sex, all with no NTs around to deal with?


Aspies cannot qualify as astronauts. There are specific physical and mental criteria that you must satisfy before you can qualify to become astronaut candidate.


If launch costs were to drop tremendously and we were to create rotating space habitats to create artificial gravity, the qualifications I think would become much less strenuous.


_________________
"You have a responsibility to consider all sides of a problem and a responsibility to make a judgment and a responsibility to care for all involved." --Ian Danskin


naturalplastic
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Age: 71
Gender: Male
Posts: 35,189
Location: temperate zone

04 Oct 2014, 1:22 am

Jono wrote:
Verax wrote:
I was listening to a scifi radio show that had the premise that NTs would go nuts on long space flights (10+ years). The story had schizophrenic crews, lesbian crews, etc etc, all with the same result. Got me thinking, if you put two hot aspies in a tin can, surely that would work.

I was wondering how others think they would fair being in a tin can for 10 years with an attractive aspie with nothing to do but repair space craft systems, talk non-stop about their favorite subject, and have lots of sex, all with no NTs around to deal with?


Aspies cannot qualify as astronauts. There are specific physical and mental criteria that you must satisfy before you can qualify to become astronaut candidate.


They can always waive rules. Maybe the OP could persuade NASA that aspies are better suited to space than NTs, and to experiment.