Study finds female body form more efficient for space travel

[jstar]

Not sure where to put this, so move if another spot is more suitable:

Study finds female astronauts more efficient, suggesting future space missions with all-female crews​

Study finds female astronauts more efficient, suggesting future space missions with all-female crews

As humans contemplate life on other planets, we are immediately confronted with two choices. One is a journey to another solar system that would take tens of thousands of years (with current technology), requiring around 2,000 generations to live out their existence in the cramped confines of a...

phys.org

 

[martinbayer]

I've always thought that on average women make much better astronaut candidates than men - higher social aptitudes, lower body masses, lower caloric needs, etc.. In a more rational and enlightened world, NASA would have gone with the Mercury 13 rather than the Mercury 7.

 

[Nicknick]

 all femal crew? They should take a look on all female working enviroments which tend to be not harmonic at all....

 

[martinbayer]

So what is your specific experience in all female working environments ? And on a completely unrelated matter, can you name the most recent female mass shooter (let's arbitrarily set the lower threshold at 10 casualties) in US history?

 

[paralay]

Men, in extreme cases, will stuff each other's face and become best friends after that. Women will take revenge forever

 

[Justo Miranda]

Not sure where to put this, so move if another spot is more suitable:

Study finds female astronauts more efficient, suggesting future space missions with all-female crews​

Study finds female astronauts more efficient, suggesting future space missions with all-female crews

As humans contemplate life on other planets, we are immediately confronted with two choices. One is a journey to another solar system that would take tens of thousands of years (with current technology), requiring around 2,000 generations to live out their existence in the cramped confines of a...

phys.org

PROPAGANDA

 

[martinbayer]

Men, in extreme cases, will stuff each other's face and become best friends after that. Women will take revenge forever

Concrete evidence or just misogynistic bromance BS?

 

[martinbayer]

Not sure where to put this, so move if another spot is more suitable:

Study finds female astronauts more efficient, suggesting future space missions with all-female crews​

Study finds female astronauts more efficient, suggesting future space missions with all-female crews

As humans contemplate life on other planets, we are immediately confronted with two choices. One is a journey to another solar system that would take tens of thousands of years (with current technology), requiring around 2,000 generations to live out their existence in the cramped confines of a...

phys.org

PROPAGANDA

Congratulations, you just made the case for female crews right there ... If I may ask, do you perhaps come from a his panic culture?

 

[njiiaf]

Here comes the usual hypocrisy. I was told that females needed to be in all-male groups in the name of "equity", even if it came at the detriment of that group. Now suddenly we need all-female groups?

 

[martinbayer]

Here comes the usual hypocrisy. I was told that females needed to be in all-male groups in the name of "equity", even if it came at the detriment of that group. Now suddenly we need all-female groups?

Please provide concrete objectively verifiable examples of your alleged "detriment".

 

[njiiaf]

Please provide concrete objectively verifiable examples of your alleged "detriment".

Mixed-gender teams come up short in Marines' infantry experiment

All-male ground combat teams outperformed their mixed-gender counterparts in nearly every capacity during a recent infantry integration test.

www.marinecorpstimes.com

Here. Now stop gaslighting. You know exactly what everybody in this thread is talking about. You don't need studies to prove that men and women are different and have different strengths and weaknesses. But when women have weaknesses, those have to be overlooked in the name of "equity". When men have weaknesses, its perfectly ok to take those into account?

 

[jstar]

Please provide concrete objectively verifiable examples of your alleged "detriment".

Mixed-gender teams come up short in Marines' infantry experiment

All-male ground combat teams outperformed their mixed-gender counterparts in nearly every capacity during a recent infantry integration test.

www.marinecorpstimes.com

Here. Now stop gaslighting. You know exactly what everybody in this thread is talking about. You don't need studies to prove that men and women are different and have different strengths and weaknesses. But when women have weaknesses, those have to be overlooked in the name of "equity". When men have weaknesses, its perfectly ok to take those into account?

Don't know if things have changed over the last eight years, but " Editor's note: This story was originally published at 12:01 p.m. on Sept. 10, 2015."

 

[Dilandu]

Next step - japanese schoolgirls!

(ironically, anime "Rocket Girls" made use of exactly that premise; fictional japanese space agency tried to make a human flight, but their only available rocket is seriously underpowered. So to save as much weight as possible, they resort to recruiting schoolgirls as crew)

 

[hagaricus]

I was once the only male employee in an otherwise all-female workplace, and can attest to the vicious and toxic work environment that it generated. It got to the point where if I said hello to someone in the corridor, there would be trouble. If I didn't say hello, there would be a different kind of trouble.

 

[njiiaf]

Mixed-gender teams come up short in Marines' infantry experiment

All-male ground combat teams outperformed their mixed-gender counterparts in nearly every capacity during a recent infantry integration test.

www.marinecorpstimes.com

Here. Now stop gaslighting. You know exactly what everybody in this thread is talking about. You don't need studies to prove that men and women are different and have different strengths and weaknesses. But when women have weaknesses, those have to be overlooked in the name of "equity". When men have weaknesses, its perfectly ok to take those into account?

Don't know if things have changed over the last eight years, but " Editor's note: This story was originally published at 12:01 p.m. on Sept. 10, 2015."

They've gotten worse.

 

[paralay]

Men, in extreme cases, will stuff each other's face and become best friends after that. Women will take revenge forever

Concrete evidence or just misogynistic bromance BS?

Real life experience, observed personally and repeatedly

ÐеÑелÑе коÑоÑÑÑиÑеÑÑ𤣠- Coub

Created by ðºðððð ð½ððððð. Open and watch this coub with all the loops!

coub.com

 

[Dilandu]

Real life experience, observed personally and repeatedly

Awwww) Sexy)

 

[Archibald]

Men, in extreme cases, will stuff each other

Enough said.

ROTFL

 

[Orionblamblam]

I've always thought that on average women make much better astronaut candidates than men - higher social aptitudes, lower body masses, lower caloric needs, etc.. In a more rational and enlightened world, NASA would have gone with the Mercury 13 rather than the Mercury 7.

How many of the "Mercury 13" were test pilots?

 

[martinbayer]

I was once the only male employee in an otherwise all-female workplace, and can attest to the vicious and toxic work environment that it generated. It got to the point where if I said hello to someone in the corridor, there would be trouble. If I didn't say hello, there would be a different kind of trouble.

If you have trouble with everyone around you, you might want to explore what the common denominator of your problems is...

 

[martinbayer]

I've always thought that on average women make much better astronaut candidates than men - higher social aptitudes, lower body masses, lower caloric needs, etc.. In a more rational and enlightened world, NASA would have gone with the Mercury 13 rather than the Mercury 7.

How many of the "Mercury 13" were test pilots?

Only a matter of training.

 

[martinbayer]

Men, in extreme cases, will stuff each other's face and become best friends after that. Women will take revenge forever

Concrete evidence or just misogynistic bromance BS?

Real life experience, observed personally and repeatedly

ÐеÑелÑе коÑоÑÑÑиÑеÑÑ𤣠- Coub

Created by ðºðððð ð½ððððð. Open and watch this coub with all the loops!

coub.com

I really don't think that video is making the point you might be trying to make ...

 

[Dilandu]

Men, in extreme cases, will stuff each other

Enough said.

ROTFL

And not only in extreme...

 

[martinbayer]

Men, in extreme cases, will stuff each other's face and become best friends after that. Women will take revenge forever

I shudder to try to imagine what those "men" you speak of might stuff each other's faces with...

 

[Nicknick]

So what is your specific experience in all female working environments ? And on a completely unrelated matter, can you name the most recent female mass shooter (let's arbitrarily set the lower threshold at 10 casualties) in US history?

My ex-girfriends are reference enough for me (but I heard the same stuff again and again from friends, friends wifes etc.). I dont want to start a hughe controversy, but I can confirm you, that many women dont want to work in an all female enviroment anymore...

BTW:

Lisa Nowak: Why the Astronaut Drove 900 Miles to Attack Her Ex's Girlfriend

During her trip to confront Colleen Shipman, Nowak reportedly wore diapers to avoid bathroom breaks. Her actions inspired the 2019 movie 'Lucy in the Sky.'

www.biography.com

 

[Archibald]

Much like turkeys, to boldly stuff, where the sun never shines (and I don't mean Erdogan, although he is certainly a fucker)

 

[TomcatViP]

Rationally, there is mo need for strength in space (non-planetary). I have already said that there isn't either not much use of legs (when physical handicap was raised in question (lower limbs)).

I don't see why an all women crew would lower perform. Then with a lower crew mass on average, it is logical to come to that conclusion. Even if I doubt that body masses will impact the efficiency of any mission... May I remind all that no space mission has reached orbital speed with Sherpas....

 

[Orionblamblam]

I've always thought that on average women make much better astronaut candidates than men - higher social aptitudes, lower body masses, lower caloric needs, etc.. In a more rational and enlightened world, NASA would have gone with the Mercury 13 rather than the Mercury 7.

How many of the "Mercury 13" were test pilots?

Only a matter of training.

Yeah, uh-huh. And it's only a matter of training that has kept me from being a world class basketball player/brain surgeon/ballerina.

None of the M13 were, IIRC, trained test pilots. That was a requirement for being a first-gen astronaut.

 

[Nicknick]

I can’t give you a quotation, since it is many years ago that I read it, but there was on space shuttle mission with an all-female crew and this has never been repeated (one of them did the murder attac). The Nasa did make psychologic evaluations and made the conclusion, that mixed gender teams are the best choice. There tend to be at least one woman in every mission, which definitely helps to improve the atmosphere of the team. To my knowledge, there has never been a team with only one male in a female team, for whatever reasons..

I lived some years in communes during my studying years an I can confirm, that young men tend to keep the shared rooms in a better state and drank less alcohol when women as roommates were present.

 

[martinbayer]

I've always thought that on average women make much better astronaut candidates than men - higher social aptitudes, lower body masses, lower caloric needs, etc.. In a more rational and enlightened world, NASA would have gone with the Mercury 13 rather than the Mercury 7.

How many of the "Mercury 13" were test pilots?

Only a matter of training.

Yeah, uh-huh. And it's only a matter of training that has kept me from being a world class basketball player/brain surgeon/ballerina.

None of the M13 were, IIRC, trained test pilots. That was a requirement for being a first-gen astronaut.

That's completely fair and ok, but rather than rehash past millenium history, the real question is what's the best way going forward.

 

[Orionblamblam]

That's completely fair and ok, but rather than rehash past millenium history, the real question is what's the best way going forward.

Make space launch as cheap and reliable as possible. Throw open the doors to free market capitalism, colonialism, commercial exploitation of space. Make sure that governments not only don't stand in the way of people making *bank* by exploiting the resources in the heavens, government *supports* that. Then the invisible hand of the marketplace and Darwinian selection will, over time, produce the best population for spaceflight. Those who aren't cut out for it will either stay home or will die in the cold embrace of vacuum; those who are up for it will start a new branch of human civilization. this will really only be possible by allowing *large* numbers of people to participate, not just hand-picked best-of-the-best-of-the-best groups of elites.

This will entail not just the transport and employment of humans, but many other species as well. Some will turn out to be unable to cope with the rigors and weirdness of space; others will doubtless do just fine. It may happen that differences within species will be important. For example, what kind of cattle will do best on, say, Island 4 or under the Lake Armstrong dome? Pickign winners is not the way to go; you do a mass dump and see who survives.

 

[martinbayer]

Right now I'm actually literally on a bender to catch up on the latest season of The Orville, so while as a staunch agnostic I don't cotton up to any voodoo hoodoo concepts like an invisible hand (seriuosly, watch ghost hunters much?), otherwise I largely agree with your reasoning. My only caveat is to first analyze any potentially detected extraterrestrial resources for any signs of life - I would hate to see the Dodo incident repeated on a universal scale.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Right now I'm actually literally on a bender to catch up on the latest season of The Orville, so while as a staunch agnostic I don't cotton up to any voodoo hoodoo concepts like an invisible hand (seriuosly, watch ghost hunters much?),

You don't *actually* think that an "invisible hand," be it in free market economics or Darwinian evolution, implies an actual hand, do you???

otherwise I largely agree with your reasoning. My only caveat is to first analyze any potentially detected extraterrestrial resources for any signs of life - I would hate to see the Dodo incident repeated on a universal scale.

We've been over this before. Mars, for example, is either dead or very much dying There *might* be some sort of bacteria or lichen or something hanging on somewhere... but that life will be sparse and have no future except slow extinction. I'll stomp said Martians into the ground with my own boots if it means we can terraform the place or detonate the whole planet into a cloud of rubble with which to build a billion city-state sized habitats.

 

[martinbayer]

Right now I'm actually literally on a bender to catch up on the latest season of The Orville, so while as a staunch agnostic I don't cotton up to any voodoo hoodoo concepts like an invisible hand (seriuosly, watch ghost hunters much?),

You don't *actually* think that an "invisible hand," be it in free market economics or Darwinian evolution, implies an actual hand, do you???

otherwise I largely agree with your reasoning. My only caveat is to first analyze any potentially detected extraterrestrial resources for any signs of life - I would hate to see the Dodo incident repeated on a universal scale.

We've been over this before. Mars, for example, is either dead or very much dying There *might* be some sort of bacteria or lichen or something hanging on somewhere... but that life will be sparse and have no future except slow extinction. I'll stomp said Martians into the ground with my own boots if it means we can terraform the place or detonate the whole planet into a cloud of rubble with which to build a billion city-state sized habitats.

It really doesn't matter what I think (and yes, for the record, as a German aerospace engineer working for a major United States aerospace manufacturer and prime exporter as well as being an avid watcher of Penn and Teller "Fool Us", *of course* I don't believe in invisible hands or feet or any other more or less droopy body appendages), but any theory (economic or otherwise) that sillily (not sure that's an actual word though?) invokes such a *magical* voodoo device is automatically disqualified in my world view. Your mileage may vary though, of course.

 

[Orionblamblam]

any theory (economic or otherwise) that sillily (not sure that's an actual word though?) invokes such a *magical* voodoo device is ...

... a major misunderstanding of the term.

 

[martinbayer]

any theory (economic or otherwise) that sillily (not sure that's an actual word though?) invokes such a *magical* voodoo device is ...

... a major misunderstanding of the term. And please note that I

Enlighten me then - remember, English is only my third language - the second was Latin, and the fourth was French - I am an abysmal failure at both (jeez, what is it about the French and their weird accents - they're just as bad a German umlauts, but that is clearly besides the point here). And please note that I won't cotton up to any metaphors, similes, or any other linguistic smoke bomb crap.

 

[Orionblamblam]

any theory (economic or otherwise) that sillily (not sure that's an actual word though?) invokes such a *magical* voodoo device is ...

... a major misunderstanding of the term.

Enlighten me then.

It's no more magical than "unintelligently directed" forces turning chaos into order... steam turning into ice, say. Or how water "magically" fits precisely into the shape of a container. Market economics and natural evolution are (or at least should be) largely undirected forces that lead their subjects towards best fitting into their environments.

 

[rooster]

Less weight, less caloric intake, less space.... Let's go with an all midget NASA

 

[martinbayer]

Let's go with an all female midget NASA astronaut corps then . The less body mass you need to accomodate a fully functional brain on space exploration missions, the better.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Let's go with an all female midget NASA astronaut corps then . The less body mass you need to accomodate a fully functional brain on space exploration missions, the better.

Better by far would be to baseline slightly chubby, but very muscular, men of well over six feet. Big, heavy, requiring more food, water, life support. Because once you've got that, you can take anybody worth taking.