NASA and the European Space Agency explore ways for astronauts to hibernate during long space journeys

[boingboing]

Originally published at: NASA and the European Space Agency explore ways for astronauts to hibernate during long space journeys | Boing Boing

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[anon87143080]

Maybe they’ll finally have space pyjamas in the future too

[cannibalpeas]

@boingboing

As far as we know, there is nothing unique about homo sapiens that would prevent our species from hibernating, and I believe the capacity is there but it needs to be unlocked,

Yes, please.

[hecep]

His team is currently conducting experiments on the cells of hibernating Syrian hamsters to see if they have special adaptations that could help them cope with stressful environments. "

[Melizmatic]

[HMSGoose]

I once took Ambien on a 15 hour flight to Shanghai. Turned it into a 6 hour flight as far as I was concerned.

[anon76551318]

Research is being done on exactly how the body and brain would enter a state of torpor.

Watching fifteen minutes of Fox News has been found to do the trick.

[FGD135]

A good primer on the many problems involved:

Could We Really Sleep in Space for Years?

[Badder74]

Great for trips to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. But they’ll have to come up with something else to go exploring outside of the Solar System.

[smallcell]

Until they come up with effective radiation shielding etc it’s pretty useless.

[Anselm]

What could possibly go wrong. Don’t these people watch sci-fi movies???