Anxiety? I have "shutdowns" when over stressed where I can't speak no matter how much I want to consciously. But that never happens out of the blue. It might happen if I was about to go on a spacewalk... For the first time. Not the 10th, tho.
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Could also be a rogue aura from migraine or - worst case, I guess - it could be Transient Cerebral Ischaemia. Makes sense to evacuate him for evaluation father than risking a full blown stroke in space.
That is what it sounds like to me. Stress and just sensory overload and anxiety could cause my brain to just lock up some functions. Speech is pretty complex.
I feel that if I were an astronaut I'd be extremely subject to the yips.
Ever the optimist, heβs holding out hope that he can return to space one day.
Oh, buddy...
That's only possible if they figure out what happened. If they never get a cause, then he's grounded for good.
Well also dude is almost 60. Let some younger astronauts go. Whats with every old fuck just not going away anymore? Why not let the younglings take over?
Not siding with him but you may understand when you are 60.
My mind isnβt going to change about old people making way for younger people no matter how old i get. Iβve only got a decade and a half til iβm 60 so iβm pretty sure on this fact.
Same age as you, and the only thing holding me back from stepping out of the way for the younger generation is the fact that bills dont go away when you step aside. But I don't plan on taking up professional space a single year longer than I need to.
If you're coming up on 60 and really passionate about your field, the best thing you can do is shift your focus to advocating for the next generation, making sure they have the skills and opportunities to follow you successfully.
That's an odd way to say 75% is basically 100%.
That's a clumsy way of insinuating that 60's the end. π₯Ή
I wouldn't say 60 is the end, but being between 45 and 60 I wouldn't say my perspectives between the two were basically the same, either.
By that math, 75 is 115%, though. π€πΌ
By that math, 75 is 115%, though
no, it is not. not even the assumption you tried to support is right, 75 is not 115% of 60.
He isn't even eligible for social security yet!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Corps#Members
Don Petit, 70, just finished a 220 day mission a year ago.
There are a handful of other 60+ year olds from groups 16-18.
Sorry, that last sentence had my brain hiccup and throw out the Buscemi teen meme.
I have this same attitude about our elected officials.
Obviously an alien parasite infestation.
I mean, the ISS probably has a very peculiar mix of microbes. Isolated from everything else they are just what the humans brought with them into this at first very sterile environment. And there in zero g they tried to survive end evolve.
Impostor...
SUS
Nothing decon gel can't fix
Space madness
They were trying to send a message through him, but something in human brains is incompatible with their communication method.
Zero gravity is completely unnatural, our biology is not accustomed to it at all. If we ever expect to have humans in space for long periods of time, we need a rotating wheel space station.
A rotating station would also be really cool to try out long term Lunar and Martian gravity closer to home. Out bodies kinda hate 0G, but what about 1/6 or 1/3 G?
Nah, crank that bad boy up for 10g, get some resistance training done!
Imagine a rotating stick space station where the G forces get progressively higher the further out you are
The most elite CrossFit gym of all time
Calm down, Goku
I think even a small amount of gravity will prevent all the fluid buildup issues because even if it's low, having gravity means you can walk and apply pumping pressure on your fluids with your legs. The bone density issues will happen slowly unless you can get a cyclotron 1g occasionally.
As bad as it was for him if this ever happens again they now have a data point to reference and eliminate a lot of things. I could see it eventually leading to some cool neurological discoveries. Exciting space science!