{"id":2908,"date":"2008-04-15T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2008-04-15T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T16:41:44","slug":"mars-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2908","title":{"rendered":"Mars Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Space Agency<\/a> is seeking<\/a> volunteers to simulate a 17 month trip to Mars. \u00a0The whole plan, known as the Mars-500 Project, sounds a lot like the Bio Dome<\/a> to me but I guess more or less you’d be stuck in a capsule of some sort for the better part of 17 months in Moscow.<\/p>\n

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Now the Russians (as always) are hedging their bets and running a second test<\/a> with Monkeys. \u00a0The test will measure how the monkey’s handle the pressure of\u00a0interplanetary\u00a0space travel.<\/p>\n

Twelve monkeys have flown in Russian and Soviet spaceships on previous missions.<\/p>\n

Krosh flew in space in 1992 and is still in rude health.<\/p>\n

Abrek and Bion were the first into space, in December 1983. After a five-day flight they landed in Kazakhstan and after rehabilitation returned to the pack.<\/p>\n

Two years later the monkeys Verny and Gordy spent seven days in space.<\/p>\n

In 1987 Dryoma and Yerosha spent two weeks in orbit. After returning from space Dryoma was presented to Cuban leader Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n

After that there were three two-week flights: in 1989, 1992 and 1996. Then the project stopped – Russia did not have enough money for the programme. Now experiments are conducted on Earth under conditions which simulate weightlessness.<\/p>\n

Sixteen-year-old space veteran Krosh is a star of the institute.<\/p>\n

“Old man Krosh is about 60 years old, if we translate his monkey age to a human life span. He is very active. He responds well to food and is aggressive with his female partners,” says Ms Shaginyan.<\/p>\n

“After rehabilitation he produced offspring. And that’s proof that spaceflight did not harm his health,” she added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, proof indeed. \u00a0My money’s on the monkey’s. \u00a0Considering that monkey’s already control New Dehli<\/a>\u00a0we should all know this can only end one way: \u00a0Planet of the Apes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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