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Space travel in stasis is coming sooner than you think 1
#23654419 - 09/17/16 11:00 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Once again, the stuff of science fiction becomes reality. Deep space travel could take a number of years to reach a far off destination, and humans simply are not made for that type of travel. Aerospace company SpaceWorks, with funding from NASAโs Innovative Advanced Concepts program ,is developing a solution for that problem, according to Spectrum. Their first hurdle to jump is the relatively short 55-million-kilometer multi-month trip to Mars.
Imagine being confined to a space the size of a walk-in closet with three or four of your work colleagues for several months, conducting a mission, and climbing back into that same confined space for another several months with nothing new to occupy your time. If it sounds like the makings of a reality show that drives the contestants to murder each other, you probably are not far off. Astronaut interaction, boredom, and irritation one of the smaller problems facing astronauts who are brave enough to endure space travel. Think celestial cabin fever.
The amount of resources required to transport six humans to Mars is surprising. NASA estimates a habitation module would need 380 cubic meters of volume, and would weigh in at 28,000 kilograms. Those six hungry astronauts would need 13,000 kg of food. That same group of astronauts in a state of stasis would require less space, less food, and ultimately result in a reduction of 140,000 kg of weight from smaller engines and less fuel consumption.
Stasis is simply defined as a state of โinactive, low metabolic torpor state for mission transit phases.โ It is more similar to hibernation than something more sci-fi like cryo-sleep. The problem is that humans do not naturally hibernate, but they can be placed into a state similar to hibernation for several days. Hospitals do this all the time and call it therapeutic hypothermia. After a traumatic injury, a patient can be placed into a sedated hypothermia to give the body a few days to use all its energy to heal.
Astronauts in this state would receive nutrients intravenously, but intravenous feeding has been shown to cause problems over a long period. SpaceWorks still has some problems to work out, but the message to take away is that space travel in a state of stasis is closer to reality than thought previously.

If they worked the kinks out of this technology would you go into stasis to travel to another planet or even solar system?
Never thought I would live to see stuff like this become reality...
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Re: Space travel in stasis is coming sooner than you think [Re: musiclover420]
#23654427 - 09/17/16 11:04 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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What happens if they get a stasis leak?
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Re: Space travel in stasis is coming sooner than you think [Re: musiclover420]
#23654465 - 09/17/16 11:20 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think for the continuation of our species, anything invested into furthuring our understanding of space is awesome. Creating technology that could help us live in space, whether it being colonization or construction of actual places like space stations for example- that's pretty much the direction we should be striving for, at least that's what I think.
A world ending event, such as a meteor hitting our planet will happen eventually. Even just taking away the threat of total extinction, just knowing how to grow food, or survive in space would be beneficial.
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Re: Space travel in stasis is coming sooner than you think [Re: musiclover420]
#23654472 - 09/17/16 11:26 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Space travel in stasis is coming sooner than you think [Re: The5thElement]
#23654484 - 09/17/16 11:30 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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The5thElement said: I think for the continuation of our species, anything invested into furthuring our understanding of space is awesome. Creating technology that could help us live in space, whether it being colonization or construction of actual places like space stations for example- that's pretty much the direction we should be striving for, at least that's what I think.
A world ending event, such as a meteor hitting our planet will happen eventually. Even just taking away the threat of total extinction, just knowing how to grow food, or survive in space would be beneficial.

I think we need to focus on earth a bit more first. If we get our shit together and then focus on space in 2-300 years I can't even imagine how far we could go.
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Re: Space travel in stasis is coming sooner than you think [Re: musiclover420]
#23654487 - 09/17/16 11:31 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I might be uncomfortable being placed in an artificial state of stasis.
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Re: Space travel in stasis is coming sooner than you think [Re: musiclover420]
#23654636 - 09/18/16 01:05 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Computer-injected Space Ketamine! 
Chemical-induced coma, here we come!
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Re: Space travel in stasis is coming sooner than you think [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#23654686 - 09/18/16 01:49 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20140009930.pdf
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This paper describes the test campaigns designed to investigate and demonstrate viability of using classical magnetoplasmadynamics to obtain a propulsive momentum transfer via the quantum vacuum virtual plasma. This paper will not address the physics of the quantum vacuum plasma thruster (QVPT), but instead will describe the recent test campaign. In addition, it contains a brief description of the supporting radio frequency (RF) field analysis, lessons learned, and potential applications of the technology to space exploration missions. During the first (Cannae) portion of the campaign, approximately 40 micronewtons of thrust were observed in an RF resonant cavity test article excited at approximately 935 megahertz and 28 watts. During the subsequent (tapered cavity) portion of the campaign, approximately 91 micronewtons of thrust were observed in an RF resonant cavity test article excited at approximately 1933 megahertz and 17 watts. Testing was performed on a lowthrust torsion pendulum that is capable of detecting force at a single-digit micronewton level. Test campaign results indicate that the RF resonant cavity thruster design, which is unique as an electric propulsion device, is producing a force that is not attributable to any classical electromagnetic phenomenon and therefore is potentially demonstrating an interaction with the quantum vacuum virtual plasma
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