I wonder what he'll do first when he is able to walk. Maybe meet with the Eightball Obama and put his foot to his *ss for screwing over his country while he was away? I notice that they are steering him to someone else in the mean time - probably until they can "vet" him as a political asset for the regime.

Remember when space events used to be a big deal? Now people are ho-hum about it - probably because so many of the moronic rodent monkeys that the socialist miseducation systems grinds out believe that Star Trek is real and the Apollo Program was fiction.

At time of this post, Commander Kelly is scheduled for return in about 5 hours. God bless him. No doubt he will be a treasure trove of information for the squints.

Thinkig about this today and how it takes such a toll on the body, but I envy the isolation.

Well said, Man-of-Luminosity!

BTW, as you can see from my I.D., I am new to this mighty forum. I hail from stalwart  Right Minds Conservative Political Forum, but we have lately had some great and increasing forum software glitches / breakdowns (the site software is sadly antiquated and likely will not be upgraded so in time it will fail altogether and our forum will be no more, selah).

It has been said by shrinks that people who feel uneasy being alone for long periods of time do not think of themselves as being with themselves - i.e., they don't consider themselves to be people too! So in reality, one is never alone as long as the mind is occupied with activities and endeavor.

Frankly I sort of see the ability to be alone indefinitely without becoming depressed as a characteristic of a more-mature personality. For me loneliness is a condition caused by lack of mental engagement. Some people are better than others at occupying themselves mentally.

BTW, speaking of this, have you seen the film "The Martian," and what was your impression if you did? I detest Matt Damon - 'will NEVER pay money to see anything that fool produces. Period. It's not so much the infantile politics as that I have had to work around him (and took a shower after). As far as I can tell that vermin is a stereotypical Olympic-class H-Wood a-hole with a grotesquely exaggerated sense of his own importance in the universe. Figures - his parents were self-acknowledged Communists.

Quote from: Late-For-Lunch on March 02, 2016, 08:07:39 AM
Well said, Man-of-Luminosity!

BTW, as you can see from my I.D., I am new to this mighty forum. I hail from stalwart  Right Minds Conservative Political Forum, but we have lately had some great and increasing forum software glitches / breakdowns (the site software is sadly antiquated and likely will not be upgraded so in time it will fail altogether and our forum will be no more, selah).

It has been said by shrinks that people who feel uneasy being alone for long periods of time do not think of themselves as being with themselves - i.e., they don't consider themselves to be people too! So in reality, one is never alone as long as the mind is occupied with activities and endeavor.

Frankly I sort of see the ability to be alone indefinitely without becoming depressed as a characteristic of a more-mature personality. For me loneliness is a condition caused by lack of mental engagement. Some people are better than others at occupying themselves mentally.

BTW, speaking of this, have you seen the film "The Martian," and what was your impression if you did? I detest Matt Damon - 'will NEVER pay money to see anything that fool produces. Period. It's not so much the infantile politics as that I have had to work around him (and took a shower after). As far as I can tell that vermin is a stereotypical Olympic-class H-Wood a-hole with a grotesquely exaggerated sense of his own importance in the universe. Figures - his parents were self-acknowledged Communists.

I'm not sure if I saw it or not, though I did see the end of one he was in about time travel/space folding to an all water planet etc.
Long story short, the only redeming factor was he was killed in the end.
But to answer your question, no, I would never knowingly watch a movie with communists actors, the only reason I saw that one, was the wife had it on in the bedroom and I wanted to lay down.
I didn't even know it was him till she told me, that's how much I pay attention to Hollyweird BS.
Give me anime/cartoons anyday.

Sorry to hear about your forum going under, but feel free to bring over the better, more Conservative posters if they're looking for a true Conservative TEA forum.
Welcome to the forum LFL, glad you found us.

TYVM brother. I hear ya' on H-Wood pabulum. I'd rather read good literature than watch movies, for the most part. Viz comics/ anime, etc., you mean like Ghost in the Shell type stuff? Yeah. I have a collection of Heavy Metal magazines starting with (Volume #1), 1979 - 1982 which are priceless in terms of classic graphic fiction in that genre. They are very definitely not politically correct which explains why they won't ever make it into feature film format - while children's comics like Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Batman etc., do. I'd love to see a series based on HMs "So Beautiful and So Dangerous" or any number of other features in that range of issues. Or Gene Wolfe's Urth of the New Sun series with Severian the Torturer. If you haven't seen those, you are in for a treat. The former can be had cheaply on EBAY and the latter at the local library. Gene Wolfe is one of the only conservative SF Grandmaster authors I've found, along with some of Orson Scott Card's and Fritz Leiber's and of course Robert Heinlein's (pre-brain tumor) work.

Quote from: Late-For-Lunch on March 02, 2016, 01:01:41 PM
TYVM brother. I hear ya' on H-Wood pabulum. I'd rather read good literature than watch movies, for the most part. Viz comics/ anime, etc., you mean like Ghost in the Shell type stuff? Yeah. I have a collection of Heavy Metal magazines starting with (Volume #1), 1979 - 1982 which are priceless in terms of classic graphic fiction in that genre. They are very definitely not politically correct which explains why they won't ever make it into feature film format - while children's comics like Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Batman etc., do. I'd love to see a series based on HMs "So Beautiful and So Dangerous" or any number of other features in that range of issues. Or Gene Wolfe's Urth of the New Sun series with Severian the Torturer. If you haven't seen those, you are in for a treat. The former can be had cheaply on EBAY and the latter at the local library. Gene Wolfe is one of the only conservative SF Grandmaster authors I've found, along with some of Orson Scott Card's and Fritz Leiber's and of course Robert Heinlein's (pre-brain tumor) work.

Being a child of the 50s and 60s, I collect old Warner Bros toons, mostly for the art work, but have become a fan pf Jalnese anime for it's detail to storyline and character building.
Like Naruto Shipudan, Parasyte, One Piece etc, of and the Venture brothers, South Park, but sadly the art work leaves much to be desired, especially considering how cheaply done they are on computers.

I'll definetly look for the ones you mentioned.

The preliminary buzz for Scott Kelly's trip had to do with a comparison to his twin-brother's metabolism after he returned.  Mark Kelly... 

Probably not much bioscopic info can be learned.  Cells produce their-own gravity to a certain extent. 

Quote from: kit saginaw on March 02, 2016, 03:31:40 PM
The preliminary buzz for Scott Kelly's trip had to do with a comparison to his twin-brother's metabolism after he returned.  Mark Kelly... 

Probably not much bioscopic info can be learned.  Cells produce their-own gravity to a certain extent.

They were talking about Kelly on the news.  Someone said that he grew two inches. 

"Someone said he grew two inches..."

Yeah, that's apparently what micro-gravity (aka free-fall) does to human bodies  over time - strrrrrrretches them out. 'Sounds like a potential problem. The connective tissue and maybe even the bone! Probably stretches without constant compression and can't be fixed with exercise.

There was a great SF book (very un-PC) by Fritz Leiber called, "A Specter is Haunting Texas," where one of the principles was raised on an orbital space station - long, lean and weak like a kitten (he wears a robotic exoskeleton in order to function on Terra). 

That's going to be one huge challenge for any long space trips.  That and hard radiation exposure.

Fascinating about bio-comparisons to his twin. The squints must be in a frenzy of gibbering and touching antennae over it.   

Quote from: Late-For-Lunch on March 03, 2016, 07:11:58 AM
"Someone said he grew two inches..."

Yeah, that's apparently what micro-gravity (aka free-fall) does to human bodies  over time - strrrrrrretches them out. 'Sounds like a potential problem. The connective tissue and maybe even the bone! Probably stretches without constant compression and can't be fixed with exercise.

After two days of gravity, he's now back to his regular height. 

Quote from: Dori on March 04, 2016, 09:22:57 AM
After two days of gravity, he's now back to his regular height.

When asked what it feels like to be short again, Kelly exclaimed, "there is no such thing as gravity, the earth just sux, send me back"....

Quote from: Solar on March 01, 2016, 07:21:26 PM
Thinkig about this today and how it takes such a toll on the body, but I envy the isolation.

Any bets their sense of smell is also affected after confinement that long?

Quote from: quiller on March 13, 2016, 12:18:51 AM
Any bets their sense of smell is also affected after confinement that long?

Well, he did go a year without a shower...

It appears that Quiller is correct...and of course since smell directly influences taste, it also changes astronaut food preferences. BTW, Man-of-Yarns, how often do you get strong hunches and are they ever about stocks or sporting events !?! 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/taste-changes-in-space/

Quote from: Solar on March 13, 2016, 06:21:50 AM
Well, he did go a year without a shower...

What no handi-wipes?