Looking out the window at the earth

blissed · 22-05-09 21:19:02

I love watching people do things in space. This is a short video taken on the shuttle during the release of the Hubble telescope. Watching it full screen is like being on the shuttle. I love the shots out the window of the hubble and earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2GH5rYf … r_embedded

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ohboy700 · 23-05-09 03:59:11

I could wax scientifically about the shuttle's overall success as the program nears the end and the Hubble's new 10 year lease of life, but the pictures say it wonderfully. Great video.

richard · 23-05-09 07:14:31

What I want to know is, on which mission did they test sex in space? Given that the space program is partly motivated by the ambition of eventually colonising other spheroids - and they have tested pretty much every other human and animal function up there, surely they need to know whether natural conception will work properly in zero G? How else can they guarantee the continuation of the species in the Dr Strangelove scenario?

Which makes you also think about those astronauts spending lonely months up in the space station. Methinks they take Fleshlights.

blissed · 23-05-09 13:01:10

richard wrote:

Given that the space program is partly motivated by the ambition of eventually colonising other spheroids.

Richard it's not gonna happen, a planets environment isn't easily controlled and gravity makes it expensive to travel away from and we can't live in zero gravity either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_space

But don't despair I have a vision!!!!
The energy it takes to keep an object gently spinning in space to provide 100% earth gravity is so low I think that would be the easy development route.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15bp3 … c_creation

While we're talking about thinking about thinking about going to Mars, 2 robot rovers have already been there for 5 FREAKING YEARS!! :) So the future of space I think is a no brainer.

An automated technology freely moving in space that can reproduce itself would be free from earth style economics and initially driven by the owners human greed could exponentially scale up the centrifugal model with material easily taken from Asteroids because they have virtually no gravity, all for a total cost of $0, and $0 is a very important number in the future because it'll be the total income of a human population that has no skills to offer that can't be provided by technology. Without economics, war over resources could be avoided because we'd no longer be the most intelligent species, trillions of artificial agents will, and we'll live under their guidance as their pets.

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nihpuad · 24-05-09 07:59:33

richard wrote:

What I want to know is, on which mission did they test sex in space?

Sadly, none yet, I'm afraid. There have been allegations, hints, and hoaxes, but actual sex in space remains unexplored territory, it appears. An author I know slightly has written a book on the subject, though, and there's been at least one porn film incorporating zero-g footage shot onboard an aircraft performing Vomit Comet-style parabolic flights. I suspect, however, that true exploration of sex in space will only come when we have private space hotels... but not to worry: People are working on that.

You could conceivably (ooh, sorry about that) beat the world to the punch by booking all the seats on a Virgin (ouch!) Galactic spaceflight and turn it into a suborbital IFM studio. Surely suborbital space wanking is the next best thing to orbital boinking, no?

richard wrote:

Which makes you also think about those astronauts spending lonely months up in the space station. Methinks they take Fleshlights.

Are you kidding? With all the biometric data that's being fed to Mission Control, an orgasm in space would be even less likely to go undetected than one in your studios!

blissed · 25-05-09 02:38:41

nihpuad wrote:

sex in space remains unexplored territory,

In the sex in space link we both posted there's this

Sex in space wrote:

A Soviet research facility in the field of space medicine, the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBP), has been involved for decades in the sex-related studies of living species in space. The Institute's interest in topic began in the early 1960s,

Zero gravity sex will just be a novelty. Given that the earth travels 57 billion miles around the sun every year and is only 12000 miles wide, filling the rest of earths orbit with centrifugal colonies would give us a habitable land area with 100% earth gravity of 48,180 earths while only blocking a tiny fraction of the suns light from reaching the rest of the solar system. I think it's a good plan.

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ohboy700 · 25-05-09 03:10:50

richard wrote:

What I want to know is, on which mission did they test sex in space? Given that the space program is partly motivated by the ambition of eventually colonising other spheroids - and they have tested pretty much every other human and animal function up there, surely they need to know whether natural conception will work properly in zero G? How else can they guarantee the continuation of the species in the Dr Strangelove scenario?
Which makes you also think about those astronauts spending lonely months up in the space station. Methinks they take Fleshlights.

Not until the unified theory is discovered and we can create artificial gravity. The 2001 Space Odyssey scenario of spinning to create gravity requires complex continuous motion mechanics and high amounts of energy; too expensive for long term space occupation.
It may be possible to have sex in a confined space with one of the participants restrained. However as soon as the repetitive motion of sex is started, the moving person will be unable to control direction. Fluid control, as someone already mentioned is also difficult in zero gravity.

blissed · 25-05-09 11:24:42

ohboy700 wrote:

The 2001 Space Odyssey scenario of spinning to create gravity requires complex continuous motion mechanics and high amounts of energy; too expensive for long term space occupation..

Not if the entire object is spinning. In space there's virtually no resistance to motion, once you set an object spinning (much like the earth) it can take kind of forever to slow down. The more mass it has the less infinitesimally minute nudge energy you need to keep it spinning at a constant speed and counter any minute disturbance from "live weight" forces like people moving about inside, and squindillions of times that energy is available from the interrupted suns rays hitting it's outside surfaces.

P.S. What you don't seem to realize is I'm currently building a small army of robots to put my plans into action, I'm not just after world domination, I'm not gonna be satisfied until I'm complete master of the universe.

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nihpuad · 26-05-09 03:02:22

Blissed:

I think you're too pessimistic about humans living on other (natural) planets and too optimistic about building massive structures in space. Our destiny is to do all of the above, I think, but the former will happen vastly sooner than the latter, for the simple reason that planets don't have to be built from scratch.

And I think there will be plenty of opportunities for recreational zero-g sex in the meantime: Humans may never live permanently in freefall environments, but I suspect we'll be vacationing there sooner rather than later.

blissed · 26-05-09 04:10:13

At the moment everything in space has to be made on earth and lifted. Until that changes or lifting is cheap we'll spend billions to have a few people jollying about on Mars like they did on the moon which will all be fun but in terms of colonization very little is gonna happen.

However, the game changer is self replicating technology.

Imagine an engineering company on earth, The company makes lathes and machines that make other machines simply from raw materials. If the entire factory could make any one machine in that factory it's self replicating and the entire factory could make another entire factory.

if that process is automated you have something analogous to a living cell.

If you lift that 1st cell onto a planet, raw materials are free and it'll double with each generation becoming truly massive with massive capabilities. But with this massive living technology making us things in space, do I want to live in a network of beautifully decorated and lit caves on the moon or Mars where I need an angled centrifuge to simulated earth gravity with all the mechanical probs listed above

ohboy700 wrote:

requires complex continuous motion mechanics and high amounts of energy.

or do I want to establish with others a new country and live by a lake in an equatorial climate surrounded by trees, birds and fresh air beneath a sky with clouds.

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ohboy700 · 28-05-09 02:12:20

Blissed. Since imagination is the mother of all inventions, imagine away. A swing colony in space, hmmm.

carstuff1000 · 23-07-11 12:39:21

No more space shuttle flights, shame :(Sky news 21/7/11:(
Would a penis stay upright (pointing towards the head) after orgasm in outer space, no gravity to make it fall down

blissed · 23-07-11 18:01:48

Blood circulation is not good in zero gravity. There's too much pressure in the top part of the body and less in the lower part. Muscles and bones waste. Thats why a centrifugal space ship of the kind seen in the movie 2001 is probably he only way to go if we want everyone to have a go at space travel.

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viva · 25-07-11 01:25:02

Blissed, I would think the heart would have to do less work and thus blood circulation would be better than ever. No?

blissed · 25-07-11 11:22:17

I've heard there are blood circulation problems in weightlessness but I'm not an expert so I searched it. The interesting part starts in the 3rd paragragh then the next paragraph deals with the cardiovascular system.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C003763/i … ge=adapt02

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carstuff1000 · 25-07-11 12:00:13

You can float in the dead sea, weightlessness but with gravity, fancy going, but never been.

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