{"id":4187,"date":"2010-05-12T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:45:07","slug":"send-fan-letters-to-martian-crewmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4187","title":{"rendered":"Send Fan Letters to &#8220;Martian&#8221; Crewmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at BoingBoing, Maggie Koerth-Baker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/05\/11\/going-to-marssort-of.html\">makes an excellent point<\/a>: The six people who are going to spend 520 days in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-05\/first-crew-members-selected-520-day-simulated-mars-mission\">mocked-up Martian spacecraft<\/a> are getting kind of a bum deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You get all of the inter-personal stress, all of the isolation from family and friends, all of the crappy food, all of the monotony &#8230; minus space, minus the thrill of visiting Mars, minus the adulation of school children. It reminds me of Uncle Shelby&#8217;s ABZ Book: &#8220;Do you want to visit the wonderful far-off Land of Oz? Well you can&#8217;t, because there is no Land of Oz, and there is no Tin Woodsman, and there is no Santa Claus! Maybe someday you can go to Detroit.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She&#8217;s going to try to find an address where we can all send &#8220;cute, home-made, crayon thank-you cards&#8221; so the team can experience another side of being a space explorer.  She&#8217;s promised to keep us posted on her progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at BoingBoing, Maggie Koerth-Baker makes an excellent point: The six people who are going to spend 520 days in a mocked-up Martian spacecraft are getting kind of a bum deal. You get all of the inter-personal stress, all of the isolation from family and friends, all of the crappy food, all of the monotony [&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\/4187"}],"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=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}