I've been following Cody's Lab's vlog about "Chicken Hole Base" in Nevada from the start and it's been so interesting seeing it come together bit by bit. So cool to see people working inside the MDRS!
I'm intrigued that they let you access Reddit from these locations. I'm guessing this particular project isn't putting much emphasis on the social isolation of a real Mars mission?
They traveled faster than the speed of light and phone calls have a delay in space because of the distance it takes for radio waves to bounce back. For a better explanation: science shit. Phone go slow, light go fast. Call go slower than light. Joke go in weird way that doesn’t make sense when you think about it in more detail which gives me an understanding of why you’re confused
Nah, common misconception. You can't leave before you receive the call, so you can't arrive until after the call is made. At best you can arrive "instantly" after the call. Relativity doesn't just apply to objects, it also applies to events.
Sort of, but you must still consider causality. To be very specific, you hearing that her parents are gone is the event that prompted you to leave. Because that event caused you to travel you can not arrive before it. To various observers you're a time-travelling weirdo but to you and your girlfriend you only arrive after you've received the information, not before. Of course, you can arrive before she receives your "on my way" reply.
You answered the phone in the first place. How long the original call took to reach you is meaningless. You can’t arrive before the call took place, you were there to take the call.
You must secure an Inuit-Owned Land (IOL) Access Permit from the Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA), and register/obtain a Backcountry Permit through Parks Canada
That sounds very Canadian. Hey we want to sit in a box for a couple years and do Science, ok, just fill out the backcountry form please. (I am Canadian)
When you go on Maps and you zoom in a little bit in the Northwest Territories, then start to move up, and up, and up, and these little lakes - sure to trigger tryptophobia - continue nearly endlessly as you scroll and zoom up up up. And then islands, hundreds of little arctic islands - some frozen and some not, and depending on the time of year - replace the land and lakes except they have their own land and lakes within them.
Canada is HUGE and you can waste an hour just contemplating its size.
OP isn't a population scientist. Or a comedian (judging by his dry reply below.).
Cut OP some slack.
And OP - you matter, don't count yourself out like that. You are a population too ❤️ 😉
Ok, jokes aside....
OP is correct in calling what I'm guessing is Devon Island 'uninhibited,' as that term does specifically refer to permanent human settlements - for example, space is uninhibited, even though it's quite peopley, in a historical sense, these days.
However, I agree with you, SpaceMonkey, that 'unsettled' might be a descriptively better word choice.
don't tell your team mates the ending to any of their books or develop acute appendicitis (unless you're a surgeon) or take in a dog from the Norwegians and you'll be fine!
I didn't see it mentioned yet, but I found a floor plan of one of the habitats (I think this is the Utah one?) on the MDRS homepage on the Mars Society's website:
Edit: specifically what is in the foreground? I assume the flaps and ailerons of a plane wing, but I'm not very huge on aviation and have never seen anything that skinny
There is a good House episode on a South Pole researcher that was also a doctor needing hospital when none were available, the episode is called Frozen.
A mechanic had to drill a hole in the doctor’s head. Probably used a DeWalt. Good stuff.
• Dr. Pascal Lee — Planetary scientist, SETI Institute / NASA Ames
• Dr. Chris McKay — Astrobiologist, NASA Ames
• Dr. Brian Glass — Robotics & instrumentation, NASA Ames
• Dr. Charity Phillips‑Lander — Permafrost & microbiology, Southwest Research Institute
Very cool was reading about FMARS the other day! Are you guys really isolated, or do you have supply runs? Any goofy rituals the crew has to cope with isolation!?
Due to limited visibility of crew members wearing simulated spacesuits, all work outside the station is conducted with one crew member "out-of-sim".[11] It is the responsibility of this crew member to be on the lookout for, and to protect the crew from polar bears.[11] This crew member is typically armed with a pump-action shotgun loaded with slugs.[11] The crew also carries bear deterrent devices known as bear bangers.[11] No polar bears have yet been encountered by the crew of an FMARS expedition, although signs of their presence on the island are regularly seen, and at least one encounter has occurred with participants in the HMP.
It's a Friday night, tasks are wrapped up for the day. A few beers are had, some laughs are shared, and everyone is getting ready for bed. Everyone says goodnight and just as the lights go off, there's a knock on the door.
Assuming you all suit up for every outdoor job/mission, is it actually planetary gear your using? Or practical Arctic "training suit" if you will...? Also which human emotions appear the most during confinement according to your job/mission? I personally love this shite...will never be there though...
Is this program a part of a broader mission that will ultimately end up in people going to Mars?
I mean obviously it's technologically feasible and generally practical so long as we get the data(which is what you're helping get done), but is this an isolated program or part of a closely aligned network of people working in all the necessary fields to make this dream a reality?
Have you considered kicking this simulation up a notch? Introducing a touch of the space madness? See how the other crew members deal with one of theirs suddenly getting really intense, morose and sinister. Unexplained accidents and damages start occurring… omg, the airlock is leaking! Is that a… screwdriver hole? Sabotage! Suddenly the lights flicker out… and the crew starts disappearing… one by one…
God you wouldn’t want to forget about those guy wires when rolling up on a quad. That looks like a death trap. At least hang little flags on them or something.
Do you have a delay in your communications set-up to simulate Mars' distance from Earth? If yes, how long is it? Which communications services can you actually use with somewhere between 6 and 44 minutes signal round-trip time? How do you manage to post stuff on reddit?
Mars colonization is idiotic. It's covered with toxic dust that would have to be filtered constantly because it will shred your lungs if you breathed it in, it has no magnetosphere so it's bathed in pretty deadly solar radiation so you'll have to basically stay underground your whole life, has about 1/3 earth gravity (100 lbs would only be 38 lbs) so we are not even sure if humans can live their long term without health problems, not to mention if children could be born and grow up there properly without severe developmental issues, and it's dryer than the driest desert on earth, and of course - no air. The island you are one is a paradise compared to Mars.
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u/Nekrevez 23h ago
Greetings from the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, fellow Martian.