"so she could talk to a face"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the_human_body


Effect of spaceflight on the human body

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Humans venture into the environment of space can have negative effects on the body. Significant adverse effects of long-term weightlessness include muscle atrophy and deterioration of the skeleton (spaceflight osteopenia). Other significant effects include a slowing of cardiovascular system functions, decreased production of red blood cells, balance disorders, eyesight disorders and a weakening of the immune system. Additional symptoms include fluid redistribution (causing the "moon-face" appearance typical in pictures of astronauts experiencing weightlessness), loss of body mass, nasal congestion, sleep disturbance, and excess flatulence.

The engineering problems associated with leaving Earth and developing space propulsion systems have been examined for over a century, and millions of man-hours of research have been spent on them. In recent years there has been an increase in research on the issue of how humans can survive and work in space for extended and possibly indefinite periods of time. This question requires input from the physical and biological sciences and has now become the greatest challenge (other than funding) facing human space exploration. A fundamental step in overcoming this challenge is trying to understand the effects and impact of long-term space travel on the human body.


Studying the effects of space on human physiology

Main article: Space medicine

Space medicine is a developing medical practice that studies the health of astronauts living in outer space. The main purpose of this academic pursuit is to discover how well and for how long people can survive the extreme conditions in space, and how fast they can re-adapt to the Earth's environment after returning from space. Space medicine also seeks to develop preventative and palliative measures to ease the suffering caused by living in an environment to which humans are not well adapted.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/3/2006 4:52 PM


The doctor who saw me at the VA


After the x-ray’s, he laughed and said that I was “full of shit.” The woman taking the x-ray’s was laughing too. All that doctor did was put me in more agony with the treatment he prescribed.


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Springfield! Springfield!


Mission To Mars (2000)


Jim, talk to me. It's Terri.
- Jim.
- Come back.
- Breathe!
- Come back!










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:24 PM

To: Kerry Burgess

Subject: Re: Journal June 12, 2006


Kerry Burgess wrote:


Early this morning, I suffered through about the first half-hour of Fast Times At Ridgemont High until I got bored and changed it.


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http://www.chakoteya.net/Enterprise/98.htm

These Are The Voyages... [ Star Trek: Enterprise ]

Original Airdate: 13 May, 2005


DATA [OC]: Data to Counsellor Troi.

TROI: Yes, Data.

DATA [OC]: I was wondering if this might be an appropriate time to continue our discussion on the long-term effects of space travel on my positronic net.

TROI: Can I give you a rain check?

DATA [OC]: You may check me for rain if you like, Counsellor, but I assure you there is no water in my










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AZ

MODEST MOUSE

album: "This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About" (1996)


http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/modestmouse/exitdoesnotexist.html

AZ

MODEST MOUSE

"Exit Does Not Exist"

Does not Exist, Take an Exit
I hear voices insinuating
Feeds me lyrics to this song that I am saying
Sunlight 7:20 PM, early September
Standing looking at a photograph
That you do not remember being taken
You look out of breath, and me like I am faking
As a matter of fact I don't recall this photo being taken
You don't even actually exist so I just started shaking
Does not exist, take an exit










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=mission-to-mars

Springfield! Springfield!


Mission To Mars (2000)


Eighty percent atmosphere.
Jim, you've got to go get
your spare helmet.
Copy that, Jim?
There's no time.
All the systems have crashed.
I gotta shut down the hab
from below.
We're losing pressure, Jim.
You could embolize.










From 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/24/1995 is 947 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/6/1968 ( Robert Kennedy dead ) is 947 days



[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/04/microsoft-windows-95.html ]


http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-08-24/news/9508240130_1_software-giant-microsoft-corp-wash-based-microsoft-windows

Chicago Tribune


Windows Open To Let In The Hype

Microsoft Squeezing Most From Promotion

August 24, 1995 By Tim Jones and James Coates, Tribune Staff Writers.

Like innocents ambling about, just waiting to be victimized by the latest in promotional panhandling, we go through life bombarded with dubious pitches for everything from anti-aging creams to Cubic Zirconia.

But most-and maybe all-previous commercial efforts pale in comparison to the buildup for Thursday's worldwide launch of Windows 95, the revolutionary new personal computer operating system from the software giant Microsoft Corp., which is touting it like Wonder Bread.










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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)


[Phoenix cockpit]

RIKER: Only got an hour to go, Doc. How are you feeling?

COCHRANE: I've got a four-alarm hangover either from the whiskey or your laser beam, ...or both, ...but I'm ready to make history! Ha, ha, ha.










https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/when-bad-publicity-good

STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS


Insights by Stanford Business

Negative publicity can increase sales when a product or company is relatively unknown simply because it stimulates product awareness.

February 1, 2011 by Stanford GSB Staff










http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)


RIKER: You've got fifty-eight minutes, Doc. You better get on [ that ] checklist.










http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-58.html

NASA


Space Shuttle


STS-58

Mission: SLS-2

Space Shuttle: Columbia

Launch Pad: 39B

Launched: October 18, 1993 10:53 a.m. EDT

Landing Site: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

Landing: November 1, 1993. 07:05:42 a.m. PST










http://www.space.com/23017-weightlessness.html

SPACE.com


Weightlessness and Its Effect on Astronauts

By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor September 30, 2013 09:07pm ET

The sensation of weightlessness, or zero gravity, happens when the effects of gravity are not felt. Technically speaking, gravity does exist everywhere in the universe because it is defined as the force that attracts two bodies to each other. But astronauts in space usually do not feel its effects.

The International Space Station, for example, is in perpetual freefall above the Earth. Its forward motion, however, just about equals the speed of its "fall" toward the planet. This means that the astronauts inside are not pulled in any particular direction. So they float.

Not having to bear weight on your feet sounds relaxing, but in the long term there are many health problems associated with it. Bones and muscles weaken, and other changes also take place within the body. One of the functions of the ISS is to study how astronaut health is affected by long periods in weightlessness. This will also be a huge focus of the first one-year ISS mission in 2015.

Experiencing weightlessness

You don't have to leave Earth to (briefly) escape the bonds of gravity. Anyone who crested the top of the hill in a fast roller coaster, or who sat in a small plane pushed down suddenly by the wind, briefly experienced weightlessness.

More sustained periods are possible in planes that fly a parabola. NASA's reduced gravity flight program, for example, flies planes in a series of about 30 to 40 parabolas for researchers to conduct experiments on board. Each climb produces a force about twice the force of gravity for 30 seconds. Then, when the plane reaches the top of the parabola and descends, passengers feel microgravity for about 25 seconds.

The film crew and actors on the movie "Apollo 13" (1995) spent hours aboard a plane that flew parabolic flights over and over again. This allowed the actors to really "float" during their time in the movie spacecraft rather than relying on cumbersome wires.

Astronauts, however, experience weightlessness for much longer periods. The longest sustained time spent in space took place in 1994-95, when Valeri Polyakov spent almost 438 days in space.

Even a few days in space can present temporary health problems, as Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper discovered after spending two weeks in space during STS-115 in 2006. During a press conference after the landing, Piper collapsed as she was not quite readjusted to gravity.

Temporary health effects

Weightlessness causes several key systems of the body to relax, as it is no longer fighting the pull of gravity. Astronauts' sense of up and down gets confused, NASA said, because the vestibular system no longer can figure out where the ground and the ceiling are. Spacecraft designers take this into account; the ISS, for example, has all of its writing on the walls pointing in the same direction.

Crewmembers also experience a disruption in their proprioceptive system, which tells where arms, legs and other parts of the body are oriented relative to each other. "The first night in space when I was drifting off to sleep," one Apollo astronaut said in a NASA interview, "I suddenly realized that I had lost track of ... my arms and legs. For all my mind could tell, my limbs were not there."

This disorientation can cause astronauts to become queasy for a few days. One famous example took place during Apollo 9 in 1969. Rusty Schweickart had to change a planned spacewalk because he was feeling ill. The concern was that if he vomited while in his spacesuit, the fluid could spread through his helmet (making it hard to see) or interfere with the breathing apparatus and cause him to potentially choke to death.

Spacecraft also must be designed to take microgravity into account. During spacewalks, for example, astronauts require extra handholds and footholds on the exterior of their spacecraft so that they can anchor themselves and not float away. (Astronauts also attach to them in tethers in case they lose their grip.)

Long-term health effects

Astronauts in space for weeks to months can run into trouble. Calcium in bones secretes out through urine. As the bones weaken, astronauts are more susceptible to breaking them if they slip and fall, just like people with osteoporosis. Muscles also lose mass.

Astronauts typically exercise two hours a day in space to counteract these effects, but it still takes months of rehabilitation to adjust on Earth after a typical six-month space mission. More recently, doctors have discovered eye pressure changes in orbit. NASA has tracked vision changes in astronauts that were on the space station, but nothing so serious as to cause concern.

The first one-year mission to the ISS will take place in 2015. One of the astronauts, Scott Kelly, has a twin, Mark, who will remain on Earth. The brothers have volunteered to be guinea pigs to look at effects on Scott Kelly's body in weightlessness in comparison to Mark Kelly's body on Earth.

"They will provide insight into future genetic investigations that can build on this study, but with a larger study population of unrelated astronauts," NASA said in 2013.










http://www.tv.com/shows/ncis-new-orleans/help-wanted-3372791/

tv.com


NCIS: New Orleans Season 2 Episode 22

Help Wanted

Aired Tuesday 9:00 PM May 03, 2016 on CBS

A Navy culinary specialist visiting her family's 100-year-old restaurant in the French Quarter is the target of an explosion. Elsewhere, Brody tracks a lead in the general leak case in Washington, D.C.

AIRED: 5/3/16



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Springfield! Springfield!


NCIS New Orleans

Help Wanted


Where's my mom? She's right outside, dear.
Doctor, that IV needs to be reapplied.
I keep trying to get a good vein, but they're weak.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/05/07 11:38 PM


When I was in the VA and they were drawing blood from me, the needle left a similar mark on my hand.


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/01/11 9:54 PM


what caused the scar on the back of my hand that was produced while I was in the VA hospital and one of the nurses stuck a needle into my skin and that exact spot during one of the many times they extracted blood from me.


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/12/2006 4:17 PM


The doctors at the VA were baffled. Baffled, they told me.


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http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-05/news/mn-20449_1_space-station

Los Angeles Times


U.S., Russian Spacecraft Go Separate Ways : Docking: Shuttle Atlantis ends historic 5-day linkup with space station. It leaves with three crewmen who have been in orbit since mid-March.

July 05, 1995 from Associated Press

HOUSTON — Astronauts and cosmonauts watched their ships part and fade into the blackness of space Tuesday in an orbital pirouette that ended five days of flying as a single craft.

"We're just shaking our heads at how quickly this has all gone by," said Charles Precourt, pilot of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis.


"We agree with that. . . . We agree 100%," Atlantis' commander, Robert L. (Hoot) Gibson, replied as he backed the shuttle away from the station.










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=the-day-the-earth-stood-still

Springfield! Springfield!


The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)


It's that spaceman.
That's what it is.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 2:28 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 04 May 2016