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2159586 No.2159586 [Reply] [Original]

I was thinking about a mission to mars and how psychologically difficult it will be for the team to spend about 3 years in a confined space but then I started to wonder...

Why can't we use a drug induced coma for the most of the time? We can even have 2 people monitor everything and switch every two weeks or whatever.

Does that make sense and if not why not?

>> No.2159600

I think that could be possible.. but the people in the coma would have to be tube fed, monitored, ect.

>> No.2159609

>>2159600

Tube fed? Don't coma patients live only of the IV?

>> No.2159613

For one, these two people would suffer from the two week shifts for 3 years and it's just as likely in this situation that they kill each other, either by accidentally fucking up the medication or on purpose.

For two, that's not good for the body. It would wreak havoc on your body which, combined with being in zero gravity for 3 years, would be pretty terrible for you.

>> No.2159631

>>2159613

I think you misunderstood me, I mean that there can be always a pair of people that would change with someone else every two weeks.

And about gravity, just have a spinning spaceship.

Or smack phobos into it.

>> No.2160644

>>2159613

Pretty much this. The lack of mobility and exercise for such time in 0 gravity would indeed destroy you physically.

>> No.2160651

>>2160644
Seems logical. Guess they'd just have to endure it.

>> No.2160656

I thought it takes only 9 months to get to Mars.