{"id":161338,"date":"2019-07-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/?p=161338"},"modified":"2019-07-01T04:57:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T04:57:10","slug":"breaking-the-narrative-episode-123-we-shouldnt-go-straight-to-mars-how-anime-got-space-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/2019\/07\/01\/breaking-the-narrative-episode-123-we-shouldnt-go-straight-to-mars-how-anime-got-space-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Narrative Episode 123: We Shouldn’t Go Straight to Mars! How Anime Got Space Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
First I apologize for not having an article a bit. I got caught up with a lot of other project work and Father’s Day. I do what I can but sometimes skipping a week is unavoidable due to various issues we all deal with at times. In any case I should just get onto my subject for this week: Space colonization. I have wanted to cover this subject for a while but haven’t had much of a way to bring it up. Even if I’ve talked about Gundam a bit. That was covering more the aspects of how they’ve presented both positive and negative portrayals of men. Now I want to talk more about the proposed technology. I don’t think many have thought of what would truly be necessary to make such a trip, nor its effects on the human body if we were to do it at our current stage of development. Not to seem pessimistic, because I’m not, but can we even perform a manned trip to Mars at this time? In this article, I will explain why and how we can work to correcting those issues. Let’s Hammer This In! In the short term though, sense of orientation and direction are inhibited and even those without a motion sickness issues can get queasy. Now as I was mentioning with the long term we have those who have been in weightlessness for months pee the calcium out of their bones which makes them brittle and weakened. Also cognition and reflexes become rather inhibited to boot unlike what the aforementioned Gundam suggests through its concept of Newtypes.
The future of the human race does lie in the stars but unlike what on the Sunday I started to work on this Elon Musk tweeted an intent<\/a>: He wants to colonize Mars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The problems I hinted at in the last paragraph come down to the effects zero gravity has upon human musculature and bone structure in the first place<\/a>. It can take months of rehabilitation to readjust to Earth after a 6-month space mission, which is slightly shorter than the minimum time it would take to get from Earth to Mars, not to mention the time involved landing, information gathering, and returning to Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So what is the solution for this issue? We need to work out a true form of artificial gravity<\/a>. I’m far from the first person to suggest this as well<\/a>. Now most people think of artificial gravity as some sort of fantastical magnetic field or some sort of special plating. However in reality we are more likely to get something a lot less pretty and difficult to develop and maintain. This is why I refer to Gundam or for something more known to Western audiences – Babylon 5. This is of course the O’Neill Cylinder concept<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n