The astronaut who prompted NASA’s first medical evacuation earlier this year said Friday that doctors still don’t know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station.
He suddenly couldn't speak in space. NASA astronaut says his medical scare remains a mystery
https://apnews.com/article/nasa-sick-astronaut-medical-evacuation-cc34793ffb73174f18443f2dd9c6ff2f
35 Comments
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 143d
Obviously an alien parasite infestation.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 7 pts · 143d
I mean, the ISS probably has a very peculiar mix of microbes. Isolated from everything else they are just what the humans brought with them into this at first very sterile environment. And there in zero g they tried to survive end evolve.
webp@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 143d
Impostor...
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 143d
SUS
5715@feddit.org · 6 pts · 143d
Nothing decon gel can't fix
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 31 pts · 143d
Oh, buddy...
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 143d
That's only possible if they figure out what happened. If they never get a cause, then he's grounded for good.
teft@piefed.social · 13 pts · 143d
Well also dude is almost 60. Let some younger astronauts go. Whats with every old fuck just not going away anymore? Why not let the younglings take over?
TBi@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 143d
Not siding with him but you may understand when you are 60.
teft@piefed.social · 6 pts · 143d
My mind isn’t going to change about old people making way for younger people no matter how old i get. I’ve only got a decade and a half til i’m 60 so i’m pretty sure on this fact.
dmention7@midwest.social · 17 pts · 143d
Same age as you, and the only thing holding me back from stepping out of the way for the younger generation is the fact that bills dont go away when you step aside. But I don't plan on taking up professional space a single year longer than I need to.
If you're coming up on 60 and really passionate about your field, the best thing you can do is shift your focus to advocating for the next generation, making sure they have the skills and opportunities to follow you successfully.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · -1 pts · 143d
That's an odd way to say 75% is basically 100%.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 143d
That's a clumsy way of insinuating that 60's the end. 🥹
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 143d
I wouldn't say 60 is the end, but being between 45 and 60 I wouldn't say my perspectives between the two were basically the same, either.
burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 143d
He isn't even eligible for social security yet!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Corps#Members
Don Petit, 70, just finished a 220 day mission a year ago.
There are a handful of other 60+ year olds from groups 16-18.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 143d
Sorry, that last sentence had my brain hiccup and throw out the Buscemi teen meme.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 2 pts · 143d
I have this same attitude about our elected officials.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 29 pts · 143d
Anxiety? I have "shutdowns" when over stressed where I can't speak no matter how much I want to consciously. But that never happens out of the blue. It might happen if I was about to go on a spacewalk... For the first time. Not the 10th, tho.
Ymer@feddit.dk · 10 pts · 143d
Could also be a rogue aura from migraine or - worst case, I guess - it could be Transient Cerebral Ischaemia. Makes sense to evacuate him for evaluation father than risking a full blown stroke in space.
higgsboson@piefed.social · 3 pts · 143d
That is what it sounds like to me. Stress and just sensory overload and anxiety could cause my brain to just lock up some functions. Speech is pretty complex.
toynbee@piefed.social · 3 pts · 143d
I feel that if I were an astronaut I'd be extremely subject to the yips.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 143d
Space madness
NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 143d
jaykrown@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 143d
Zero gravity is completely unnatural, our biology is not accustomed to it at all. If we ever expect to have humans in space for long periods of time, we need a rotating wheel space station.
burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 143d
A rotating station would also be really cool to try out long term Lunar and Martian gravity closer to home. Out bodies kinda hate 0G, but what about 1/6 or 1/3 G?
Agent641@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 143d
Nah, crank that bad boy up for 10g, get some resistance training done!
Macallan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 143d
Hupf@feddit.org · 3 pts · 143d
burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 143d
Imagine a rotating stick space station where the G forces get progressively higher the further out you are
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Lemminary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 143d
Calm down, Goku
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 143d
I think even a small amount of gravity will prevent all the fluid buildup issues because even if it's low, having gravity means you can walk and apply pumping pressure on your fluids with your legs. The bone density issues will happen slowly unless you can get a cyclotron 1g occasionally.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 143d
They were trying to send a message through him, but something in human brains is incompatible with their communication method.
Nemoder@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 143d
As bad as it was for him if this ever happens again they now have a data point to reference and eliminate a lot of things. I could see it eventually leading to some cool neurological discoveries. Exciting space science!