{"id":2160,"date":"2009-04-07T07:28:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T11:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2009-04-06T14:48:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T18:48:42","slug":"this-sounds-like-the-beginning-of-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"This Sounds Like the Beginning of a Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/marssim-150x128.jpg\" alt=\"Common Room\" title=\"Common Room\" width=\"150\" height=\"128\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Four Russians, a German and a Frenchman are all sealed inside a research facility&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, six people entered a Habitrail-like series of living modules in a Moscow research lab, where they will spend the next 105 days exploring what a lengthy trip to Mars would be like.  They&#8217;ll eat dehydrated food and breathe recycled air and endure faux-wood paneling and try not to, y&#8217;know, go nuts.<\/p>\n<p>The Mars-500 project is the initial phase of a much more ambitious 520-day simulation of a complete manned mission to Mars: Launch, Mars touchdown, and return home.  Studying the &#8220;science of sensory deprivation&#8221; will help researchers understand how to keep astronauts happy and healthy and non-stabby during an eventual real mission.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking they should also try shopping mission footage around as a reality show to help offset research costs.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/31\/science\/space\/31mars.html?_r=1\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Russians, a German and a Frenchman are all sealed inside a research facility&#8230;. Last Tuesday, six people entered a Habitrail-like series of living modules in a Moscow research lab, where they will spend the next 105 days exploring what a lengthy trip to Mars would be like. They&#8217;ll eat dehydrated food and breathe recycled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}