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Along with the rest of the criteria that make for a good astronaut--some heavy degrees in science or technology, a tolerance for cramped spaces and freeze-dried food--let's add another one. The ideal astronaut should have narrow hands to prevent his or her fingernails from falling off. National Geographic reports that the design of astronauts' space suit gloves can lead to hand and finger injuries, including an icky condition called fingernail delamination in which the nail completely detaches from the nailbed. While missing nails do grow back in time, if the nail falls off in the middle of a spacewalk it can snag inside the glove, and moisture inside the glove can lead to bacterial or fungal infections in the exposed nailbed. MIT astronautics professor Dava Newman told National Geographic that astronauts take this medical prospect seriously:

For now, the only solutions are to apply protective dressings, keep nails trimmed short—or do some extreme preventative maintenance. "I have heard of a couple people who've removed their fingernails in advance of an EVA," Newman said.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/astronauts-occupational-hazard-falling-off-fingernails

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Senescent cells "generate oxidative stress and inflammatory molecules that induce more damage," Datta said in the statement. "This greatly affected migration of cells that are needed to replace the intestinal lining, which slowed down GI functioning."

The radiation appeared to cause permanent damage, according to the study. Also, the researchers suggested that exposure to heavy ions may cause similar damage responses in other organs.

"With the current shielding technology, it is difficult to protect astronauts from the adverse effects of heavy-ion radiation," Datta said. "Although there may be a way to use medicines to counter these effects, no such agent has been developed yet."

https://www.space.com/42018-deep-space-travel-damage-astronauts-gut.html

Bloody posted:

every time you gently caress, you are loving in space

The Oldest Man posted:

Yeah actually space does loving suck, let's talk about why

First: being in it and doing work there will gently caress your poo poo up. For example, all your fingernails will fall out.


Awesome, I can't wait to pull my own fingernails out because if I don't they might fall out during a spacewalk, jam up the poo poo inside my suit, and potentially kill me.

Also, if you go outside of the protection of Earth's magnetic field, cosmic rays will gently caress up your microbiome and give you intestinal cancer. Enjoy getting permanent zero gravity IBS and then dying of tumors.



It'll probably do the same thing to all your other organs too so anyone who goes to Mars or w/e and spending a year+ getting bathed in this type of radiation should understand that they're pretty much accepting a death sentence unless they're wrapping themselves in several thousand tons of water enriched with boric acid, concrete, or some other high-bulk shielding (or magic active shielding technologies that don't actually exist yet) that is conspicuously absent from Musky's Mars mission architecture.

Of course you also lose all your muscle mass, your spine gets hosed up, your eyes change shape, you can't shower, you have to drink your own piss, there's no way to properly clean your living space/eating utensils/rear end so you endlessly run around with a dust buster and wet wipes futilely trying to make your habitat not smell like the inside of a gym bag, you can't do laundry so you wear your disgusting rear end dirty clothes for weeks and then throw them away, your best case for private space is that you get something the size of a broom closet, and every piece of garbage you produce for the entire time you are in space lives in a bag inside your tiny cramped house that you can't ever leave.

#FuckSpace

mediaphage posted:

The Oldest Man posted:

you have to drink your own piss,

The Oldest Man posted:

Bloody posted:

This post is significantly better than this thread or indeed this subforum deserve

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

Of course it sucks. Space is a vacuum you dumbass.

Derpies posted:

Nothing sucks

The Oldest Man posted:

Lol btw i forgot that if your personal fan stops working while you're sleeping in your broom closet zipped up in your sleeping bag so that you don't float around and break poo poo, a bubble of carbon dioxide will form around your head and suffocate you.

Space sucks rear end

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

wouldn't you wake up because your body would freak out that there's too much carbon dioxide in the lungs?

mediaphage posted: