SLEEPING through SPACE...
Sleeping is
one of the best work human can do extremely well ,so prepare yourself to sleep
take your teddy and night story book as we are going to sleep all the way to
space.
Since the movie PASSENGER has released the idea of sleeping pod seems to be real very soon.
Space travel
takes a very long time and eating or hanging or waiting for snacks might not be
the way...For killing time on the way to the red planet. It means being awake for that long we need to eat, drink and
doing all those normal human thing which means bringing a lot of supplies along
with us which is not a practical solutions. So here’s the crazy idea why don’t we
sleep all the way to the space. So let’s start this weird snoozing way of
travelling without the use of fancy chamber or lullaby’s.
Typically
we sleep for 8 hrs per night or that could vary but various researches in which
two volunteer put the sleep duration to the test. They were kept in isolation underground
for months in absence of daylight their sleep cycle got really crazy, one of
them slept for 30hrs straight and when he woke up he felt like he just took a
short nap. So more accurate studied showed that if we are isolated from light
and modern day amenities or marks of time, we can sleep for really long
duration.
All this
could be great techniques for hacking our sleeps. But to be practical we need
more than just a dark room. And luckily for future Mark Watney’s out there,
there are a lot of scientists figuring this out.
How it will be done?
A research company
named Space Works Enterprise, they are working with the NASA to create a pod
which would keep astronaut sleeping for two weeks at a time or may be longer. Well
that’s not a long time for space travel but
it is panned as an alternate sleep cycle or stacking cycle in artificial gravity
where astronauts will sleep for two weeks
and next two day or so they will perform their duties, exercise, eat to remain
healthy, plus taking a huge supply of food and facilities will be reduced which
will be a major benefits in going outer space. Doctors are already using similar
technology to save brain cells, so we can say it has a potential future.
Wooooo hold
your imagination; don’t get too excited, deep interstellar travel will be still
a difficult task as we still haven’t figured out how to slow down ageing. So going
to Proxima Centurai B is still long way to go. What is Proxima Centurai
B(nearest habitable planet to our solar system) is for the next blog till
then..See u in next blog my intergalactic adventurers.
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Interesting concept !! This will allow to reach planets in a relax way. Moreover, one will not realise the long distance he has travelled. Write more articles, good going.
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