Usquanigo
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Mod Note: This is a continuation of the Mars500 thread. This post is the first that does not have any meaning to the thread. Please try and keep it civilised.
Moonwalker, you are right that it's risky socially - but only in a certain sense.
It's hard for me to really word this, but, the social risk is the taboo and the entire "rule set" we've manufactured around it. Trust me when I tell you that those rules and risks do NOT have to be present. It is (at least, can be, among people mature enough to handle it the right way) nothing more than a very fun activity among friends. If you strip off the emotion we try to force upon it, then it's really not a problem at all. And I speak from both experience and observation. There are (many) such people, and this isn't fantasy.
That said, sure, there's a time and place for everything, and if other things have you pre-occupied and there just isn't time, then you buckle down and do the job. But your system will get out of balance over time, and the best way to stay refreshed is to have a little. This goes for both men and women.
And if we choose to ignore it altogether, then we may end up with a situtation where it happens on it's own, and under the usual social taboos, and suddenly we have a true recipie for potential disaster.
2 to 3 years isn't the end of the world as that goes, but you could have a happier, healthier, sharper, and closer crew if they are all compatible in that sense. And the longer the mission, the greater the risk of it happening on it's own under taboo, if brushed under the carpet and ignored.
Moonwalker, you are right that it's risky socially - but only in a certain sense.
It's hard for me to really word this, but, the social risk is the taboo and the entire "rule set" we've manufactured around it. Trust me when I tell you that those rules and risks do NOT have to be present. It is (at least, can be, among people mature enough to handle it the right way) nothing more than a very fun activity among friends. If you strip off the emotion we try to force upon it, then it's really not a problem at all. And I speak from both experience and observation. There are (many) such people, and this isn't fantasy.
That said, sure, there's a time and place for everything, and if other things have you pre-occupied and there just isn't time, then you buckle down and do the job. But your system will get out of balance over time, and the best way to stay refreshed is to have a little. This goes for both men and women.
And if we choose to ignore it altogether, then we may end up with a situtation where it happens on it's own, and under the usual social taboos, and suddenly we have a true recipie for potential disaster.
2 to 3 years isn't the end of the world as that goes, but you could have a happier, healthier, sharper, and closer crew if they are all compatible in that sense. And the longer the mission, the greater the risk of it happening on it's own under taboo, if brushed under the carpet and ignored.