{"id":278,"date":"2007-05-03T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2007-05-03T08:19:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T13:19:16","slug":"nasa-tackles-death-and-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"NASA Tackles Death and Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that NASA is seriously thinking about a Mars mission, not to mention perhaps someday exploring extrasolar Earthlike planets, they&#8217;re beginning to consider who-gets-thrown-from-the-lifeboat questions such as how long to keep a critically ill astronaut alive before pulling the plug and conserving the air and energy he&#8217;s wasting.  In a masterstroke of understatement, they&#8217;ve also identified the need for a policy on handling sexual desire amongst a mixed-sex crew on long missions.  Um, duh.<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070501\/ap_on_sc\/death_in_space\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that NASA is seriously thinking about a Mars mission, not to mention perhaps someday exploring extrasolar Earthlike planets, they&#8217;re beginning to consider who-gets-thrown-from-the-lifeboat questions such as how long to keep a critically ill astronaut alive before pulling the plug and conserving the air and energy he&#8217;s wasting. In a masterstroke of understatement, they&#8217;ve also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}