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Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Wolfala on October 13, 2004, 02:55:33 AM: Russia plans 500-day mock Mars mission
Earthly experiment would involve volunteers in 2006

By Tariq Malik
Space.com
Updated: 2:51 p.m. ET Oct. 11, 2004

Russian space researchers will lock six men in a metal tube for more than year in an effort to mimic the stresses and challenges of a manned mission to Mars.

The 500 Days experiment, under development by the Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, will isolate human volunteers in a mock space station module for — as its namesake suggests — a complete 500 days to study how a long mission to Mars might affect its human crew.

"Obviously, we're very interested in the results," NASA spokeswoman Dolores Beasley said of the long-duration study during a telephone interview. "It is a high priority for us."

During the 500 Days study, six volunteers will depend on a preset limit of supplies, including about 5 tons of food and oxygen and 3 tons of water. A doctor will accompany volunteers inside the module to treat illnesses and injuries. Volunteers will be allowed to quit the experiment only if they develop a severe ailment of psychological stress.

NASA is invited
Experiment participation is not solely reserved for Russian volunteers, institute officials added.

"We have informed our American colleagues that we plan to start an imitation of a manned flight to Mars with the help of volunteers in 2006," Yevgeny Ilyin, deputy director for science at the institute, told Russia's Interfax news agency during a recent Russian-American working group meeting in Moscow.

NASA has been invited by Russian scientists to join in on the Mars mock mission, but a final decision by the U.S. space agency is pending, Guy Fogleman, NASA director of the Office of Biological and Physical Research's Bioastronautics Research Division, told Russian reporters.

The space agency has not yet decided whether it will participate, though a decision is anticipated sometime in the next few months, Beasley added.

NASA astronauts currently serve six-month missions aboard the international space station, though Russian flight controllers have lobbied to increase joint U.S.-Russian missions up to one year in duration.

"Any medical and biological experiments made on board the international space station aim at long-distance space flights of the future," Ilyin said.

Who holds the record?
The U.S. single spaceflight endurance record falls on the space station's Expedition 4 crew, Carl Walz and Dan Bursch, who lived in orbit for a total of 196 days.

Veteran Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, a medical doctor, set the current world record for the longest continuous spaceflight when he spent 438 days aboard Russia's Mir space station between 1994 and 1995.

Polyakov told Interfax reporters that the 500 Days experiment will not include female volunteers.

Dear lord, kill me now.

Wolfala
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: GreenCloud on October 13, 2004, 03:37:00 AM: bahhh

AH
Porn
$2,000 Sex doll

you know..have you seen those ones they custom make? thougth i seen the link in th eO club...those were dam nice chicks..lolol

beef jerky
beer
wiskey
rum
tequela
juice
pool table
tv
guns
BigBoy Klondike bar(vanilla)

how much room de we get...do we have a budget?

wave machine
lazyboy with massage extras
skateboard
fishn pole
stereo big one

that sounds awful 2 years in a tube?
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Gh0stFT on October 13, 2004, 04:24:00 AM: They still search people? I want to participate!
Just give me the Intardnet :D and im your man
*** 500 days Holiday ***
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Stratocaster on October 13, 2004, 05:47:39 AM: thats damn scary to think about lol.. Give me a stack of porn and I still think id still only last a week. AT MOST! lol no women thats probably cause they think the men would have turns without conscent ahem. After a month locked in a tube with a women who knows what you would do.
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: loser on October 13, 2004, 06:53:28 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Stratocaster
thats damn scary to think about lol.. Give me a stack of porn and I still think id still only last a week. AT MOST! lol no women thats probably cause they think the men would have turns without conscent ahem. After a month locked in a tube with a women who knows what you would do.

Not take out the garbage?
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: AKS\/\/ulfe on October 13, 2004, 07:38:07 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Stratocaster
After a month locked in a tube with a women who knows what you would do.

Sit on the couch, drink beer.
-SW
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Torque on October 13, 2004, 07:44:58 AM: Russia plans 500-day monk Mars mission.
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: DREDIOCK on October 13, 2004, 09:04:29 AM: They will probably end up having sex with each other just like in jail.

Think about it. Alot of times when isolated for extended periods of time normally macho and otherwise completely hetro males will start having sex with one another.
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Torque on October 13, 2004, 09:16:13 AM: Quote
Originally posted by DREDIOCK
They will probably end up having sex with each other just like in jail.

Think about it. Alot of times when isolated for extended periods of time normally macho and otherwise completely hetro males will start having sex with one another.

Oh please, do tell us your story, j/k.
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Saintaw on October 13, 2004, 09:27:56 AM: Maybe they will pick 5 gay lads... and SOB.
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: bigsky on October 13, 2004, 09:39:27 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Saintaw
Maybe they will pick 5 gay lads... and SOB.

:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :aok :aok :aok :aok :aok :aok
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Eagler on October 13, 2004, 09:44:56 AM: more to life than ur noodle
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Saintaw on October 13, 2004, 09:57:45 AM: Maybe at your age Eagler ;)
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: AKIron on October 13, 2004, 10:16:57 AM: They should borrow our moon stage, doctor it up a bit, and turn this into a real Mars mission. ;)
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Eagler on October 13, 2004, 10:17:28 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Saintaw
Maybe at your age Eagler ;)

or level of maturity
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Airhead on October 13, 2004, 10:22:18 AM: They should recruit the FDBs- they haven't had nookie since nookie had them.
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Spooky on October 13, 2004, 10:32:46 AM: this sure explains why Star trek starships are packed with scantily clad babes !
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Airhead on October 13, 2004, 10:50:30 AM: Seriously, why not train gay men to be astronauts?
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: OIO on October 13, 2004, 11:07:46 AM: The mission crew will consist of Grigori Zachariev, Dimitri Zaitev, Nikolai Ruchenko and Bubba.

;)
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Saintaw on October 13, 2004, 11:09:11 AM: There is no need to be gay if you are locked with SOB :D
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: bigsky on October 13, 2004, 11:23:13 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Airhead
Seriously, why not train gay men to be astronauts?

the drama.
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Swager on October 13, 2004, 11:27:29 AM: 500 days?

Hell, that's a walk in the park!!
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Martlet on October 13, 2004, 11:29:05 AM: Quote
Imagine, no nookie for 500 days

That's business as usual for most of you geeks.
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Muckmaw1 on October 13, 2004, 11:45:55 AM: Get married...

500 days without sex is a cake walk.

Where do I sign up for Mars?
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: wklink on October 13, 2004, 12:15:02 PM: Yeah Yeah.

Just give them high speed internet access.

Would hate to be the cleaning crew that had to take care of the space capsule after 500 days though.
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: DREDIOCK on October 13, 2004, 01:54:14 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Torque
Oh please, do tell us your story, j/k.

you mean you dont remember?

:D
Title: Imagine, no nookie for 500 days
Post by: Furball on October 13, 2004, 01:59:02 PM: They should pick:-

Ripsnort
Lazs
Dowding
Nash
Thrawn
Grunherz

And Slo for giggles.

Heck, they should just put them on big brother.