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That NASA has done a zero-gravity intercourse experiment.
The 50th shuttle mission had married couple and it included spacelab. A pressurized and habitable module that could be isolated from the rest of the crew. Even before launch they were asked if it would happen, and denied it, as NASA has afterwards as well.
It doesn't help that several of the listed experiments was about human health, developmental biology and included animals and eggs to study ovulation, fertilization, cell division and growth.
Now that you bring it up, of course we've studied whether babies can be made in a spaceship. It’s literally the only other option for interstellar travel besides cryogenic freezing, which is far more sci-fi than spacesex. Or spacex for short.
Any generational ship will mutiny within one generation and likely die off by the second
Interstellar travel is a pipe dream made up by people tired of saving what we already are losing
Speaking from experience? How many generation ships have you travelled on?
...speaking for most of us, just the one...
You really don't want to go down that line with a guy on the spectrum that has spent literally half a century thinking about space travel. You really don't.
I think the only reason to even try a generational ship is if it's literally all we have.
We can't even keep the most prosperous nation on the planet from falling to fascism in 5 years how the FUCk do you think we're gonna keep an isolated crew of highly intelligent people with access to the highest tech available?
I know enough about human nature that the only way this works is if it started as a die-hard authoritarian religious movement and even then I only give it 1 out of 4 chances of making it 100 years into the mission
To be fair, there were a few years between when thee country was founded and five years ago.
It went bad in less than 20 so....
Transitional periods take time, and are generally pretty messy. Most of that is because comfortable humans are inherently lazy. The rich managed to stave off a transitional period that began in the mid 1800's for almost a century with specific concessions to the working class, that they immediately started clawing back, after WWI and WWII. They can't hold it back with neoliberal rot anymore, so the transitional period may now continue.
It will get better, just maybe not within our lifetimes.
Most of that is because comfortable humans are inherently lazy.
This is classist propaganda and doesn't belong in your message
The breeding fetish makes so much more sense now. Barf.
Ooh, I do like this one.
But why the secrecy?
You don't understand how sexually conservative the world was back then
They still won't let them have ANY alcohol in the US section of the ISS.
Given how US society treats alcohol, that seems reasonable. Our overall relationship with alcohol is pretty masochistically abusive.
The christians are still like this.
Paying astronauts to bump uglies with tax dollars could cause a bit of a controversy.