News Space may send you blind?

[FADEC]

I'm not too sure if artificial gravity by spinning is such a good idea. I don't know the diameter of the spinning space station from 2001. But let's assume it's 1 kilometer. It has to rotate more than one time per minute to create 1 g. Not only that the materials likely wouldn't withstand the forces for too long, but I'm also not sure if this is healthy on a permanent basis. If your spacecraft has a diameter of 10 meters, then it has to rotate more than 13 times per minute to create 1g. Honestly: I don't want to be in it for years :lol:

2001 is a nice movie though. But it's just a movie

All those issues, including the blurriness, indicates just one thing: it might not be the very best idea to fly to mars based on our current technology.

 

[Urwumpe]

It is actually related to an overproduction or lack of absorption of CSF, the symptoms are very similar to an illness that overweight women can contract. Since many astronaut diseases are similar to what women can get, it has to be assumed that space is female.

 

[FADEC]

it has to be assumed that space is female.

:lol:

 

[TMac3000]

Pardon me if this sounds dumb, but could it be solar radiation causing the problem? I mean, you don't have an ozone layer up there, and I don't know what sort of radiation shielding the ISS uses...

 

[Urwumpe]

Pardon me if this sounds dumb, but could it be solar radiation causing the problem? I mean, you don't have an ozone layer up there, and I don't know what sort of radiation shielding the ISS uses...

You have UV light filters everywhere, because the hard UV light in space can make you blind otherwise in less than 10 minutes. This recent phenomena is applying only to astronauts who had more than 30 days in space.

It can be caused by radiation, but more likely is weightlessness. It goes away after a few weeks on Earth.

 

[N_Molson]

If it goes away after a few days of normal gravity, then some kind of adaptative vision-correction googles might be enough. Who knows, maybe Martian gravity would be enough to correct that eyeball deformation.

 

[Urwumpe]

If it goes away after a few days of normal gravity, then some kind of adaptative vision-correction googles might be enough. Who knows, maybe Martian gravity would be enough to correct that eyeball deformation.

The Eye ball deformation is less a problem there, than the eye nerve deformation.

 

[Codz]

All the more reason to stay on Earth till we can build ships like in Star Trek. There aren't any reports of crewmembers of the Enterprise going blind just from being aboard it.

Star Trek is just as fictional as sci-fi gets. There isn't enough unobtainium in the world to build the Enterprise.:dry: