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Mary Roach: Packing for Mars

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Mary Roach on the Art of Peeing in Outer Space

03 min 05 sec

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Packing for Mars author Mary Roach discusses the early fears about human response to zero gravity in outer space, ranging from eyeballs changing shape to blood ceasing to pump.

As it turns out, humans do need gravity to detect a full bladder. Thankfully, NASA employs an astronaut potty trainer.
Mary Roach: NASA Research on Zero Gravity Sex?

02 min 25 sec

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Mary Roach, author of the acclaimed Bonk and Stiff, debunks NASA's alleged research on sex positions in a zero gravity orbital environment. "It's the greatest hoax on the Internet," she says.

Roach also recalls what cosmonaut Aleksandr Laveykin, who spent 174 days in space, had to say on sex in space.
Mary Roach on Space Hygiene and the Official Nose of NASA

03 min 24 sec

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Authors Mary Roach and Jeff Greenwald dive into the dirty world of astronaut hygiene.

They talk about the glamorous job of opening the shuttle's hatch after a two-week mission, space deodorant, and the official nose of NASA, whose job consists of testing everything that goes up on the shuttle for unpleasant odor. Curiously, the Amazon Kindle recently failed to pass the sniff test.
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Kondrasky Alejandro

Posted: 09.21.10, 09:00 PM

You are your own dog!!! XD

Kondrasky Alejandro

Posted: 09.21.10, 08:20 PM

About the talking delay... did no one read it Issac Asimov story about the old ladys tea talk system ? It would work very well as is work really well when we use msn or any other chat system in which we talk about 3 or 4 things at the same time with the same person but the respons are flowing in different time moments because we are doing other stuff or talking to other people.

JulianHt

Posted: 09.02.10, 05:57 AM

Why waste all this money on useless space travel when there are so many poor, hungry and homeless people on earth. Future generations will ask why we didn't care about those people or the environment.

gocanuckzgo

Posted: 08.21.10, 11:34 PM

Maj, how much do you think the governments of the world spend on their respective space programs? Take NASA for example. Compare NASA's budget with the Military budget. Its pathetic how little is spent on the space program. NASA - 20 billion, Military - 685 billion. So before you criticize NASA criticize the military, constantly building and dismantling nukes, building new fighter planes when the old ones function just fine etc... This is the kind of stuff to criticize, not NASA.

Maj_Majestik

Posted: 08.20.10, 11:56 PM

Our precious planet is changing in ways that will not make life on Earth very pleasant for humans...or other living things. To care about going to Mars right now, seems stupid and a distraction from the issues we face. Have scientists and budgets to reforest the planet and develop alternative energies, just solve some very immediate problems on this once Beautiful Blue Planet.

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