Sounds like living in space long term ain't all it's cracked up to be in sci-fi books. They gotta figure out how to simulate gravity next.

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Astronaut Scott Kelly at one point in his life held the record for the most consecutive days spent aboard the International Space Station, an achievement that unfortunately comes with a high cost. Upon returning home to Earth, Kelly now suffers numerous health problems caused by living in space, but he expected as much when he signed up for his 340-day mission. Scientists studying the effects of outer space on the human body hope that Kelly's readjustment to Earth will help them better understand how living sans gravity affects a person's health. Kelly, who has an identical twin brother who also happens to be an astronaut, makes for a perfect subject when examining space-related health issues; both he and his brother, who spent six months in space, could shed light on the short and long-term health problems caused by outer space.

After spending a year back on Earth, Kelly now shares his health struggles in a new book entitled Endurance. Scott Kelly's health problems sound absolutely grueling, and he will face issues with his health for the rest of his life. Space already sounds scary enough, and the effects of space on Scott Kelly's body show living in zero gravity comes with zero health perks.

Not to diminish this at all. ...but about 3 months ago, I drank very frequently (*just beer) as I'd been horrified by life "back with the family" after previously being laid off....no way to do anything for myself and no space. I would play host at the park and run through a 6 pack pretty often.

Fortunately my new recent job activated my status to FULL TIME. ..and i won't have to do that again i hope.

Experiences: burning like hives (*probably Candida stemming from excess yeast)

I'd get large numb bumps arising from my legs and a few times my arms.

I got a large (*huge) bump on my leg which was misdiagnosed as cellulitis, it disappeared a week after avoiding ROLLING ROCK (*yes, during this time i went for the cheap stuff, assuming that watery "beer" would be sufficient for a slight buzz, and for the duration without any consequences)

THE LESSON: STAY OUT OF SPACE.....and STAY AWAY FROM ROLLING ROCK! (*it's probably poison)

That leg swelling. ..God that doesn't even sound like a timing condition brought on at any certain hours. This information was interesting. Thank you for posting it.

Even a fake gravitational environment seems to have fucked up this guy's internal program. That's frightening.

They should check his DNA to see if it has been altered.

I'd read this horrible horrible- HORRIBLE utterly horrible account of HIRASHI OUCH in "83 days of radiation sickness" : a book and apparently a documentary from Japanese tv....about a man who was exposed to extreme radiation when the substances they were handling (*the other guy was fortunate enough to die quickly) when the substance hit critical mass.

They experienced a flash of it. And the story recounts the horrible agonizing determined efforts of medical professionals to "save" his life. ..or prolong it. ...or STUDY it. ...for god's sake it's absolutely horrifying....they had attempted to graft cells and cross dna with this guy and his sister's after his body could no longer recreate its own cellular composition (*the mitochondria and fna all were fractured and composing masses of dull tissue) ...supposedly he temporarily recreated tissue matching his sister's which then broke down.

The guy was essentially becoming an amorphous mass of tissue. ..touch would peel off his skin. Apparently the only thing that remained in the end was his heart (*a muscular mass; not just a poetic device)
who's to say for certain if he even has consciousness.

God, if that were me, I'd have loved someone to push my bed on a gourney into a field after pulling several pins from live grenades on me...it sounded somewhere in between having a case study AND genuine help attempts to rescue the man's life. What a horrible read. ..RECOMMENDED

I hope the same doesn't occur with this guy
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^ and yes. It's not lost on me that his last name is "OUCH-I"


Proof that God/life has a sick sense of humor. ...

....or maybe just coincidence. That he "survived" so long is incredible.

TrivialPursuit said:

gravity or the lack of it will jack a person up that's for sure.so many obstacles

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Don't pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait'll you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles, see if you're still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.

We're going away. The pretty lights call us. Like moths to a flame.

morningsong said:

Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Don't pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait'll you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles, see if you're still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.

XxAxX said:

there has to be a better way to 'travel' in space.

Yeah, we'll figure it out like we do everything else, through trial and error.

uPtoWnNY said:

Hollywood sci-fi has us thinking we can travel outer space in 50-100 years or so with ease.

Yeah, which is why I like the Expanse, it deals with some of those truths.