Scientists: Real women are better to send to Mars than real men
Gee, I thought there was no difference: According to a study done for the European Space Agency (ESA), scientists have concluded that sending a four person all-female crew to Mars would have significant advantages over either a mixed sex crew or an all-male crew.
From the paper’s conclusion:
These estimated differences result from lower resting and exercising O2 requirements (based on available astronaut data) of theoretical female astronauts, who are lighter than theoretical male astronauts at equivalent statures and have lower relative VO2max values. These data, combined with the move towards smaller diameter space habitat modules, suggest that there may be a number of operational advantages to all-female crews during future human space exploration missions.
While there may be some minor operational advantages to only flying female astronauts on long missions, those advantages pale in comparison to the loss to humanity in the long run. You can’t settle a new world with one sex. Nor can you learn how to get there if you build your spacecraft capable of only meeting the minimum requirements.
If you go, everyone must go, or else the goal is not inclusive and diverse. Or as reader Milt noted to me when he sent me this story:
Of course, every research finding that is reported in this article flies in the face of the woke conventional wisdom that “there are no differences between men and women,” and — even better — male astronauts who wish to transition to being women must then be accepted as female in terms of mission planning, etc., lest NASA or the ESA be accused of transphobia.
In other words, this study and the entire “transgender” movement reveal the real leftist goal: Power and control. In the first case, the study says: “Give the job only to our favored oppressed sex!” In the second case the “transgender” movement says: “Obey our whims no matter what!”
Facts only matter when they help this leftist movement gain power and control. When the facts are inconvenient, the facts are tossed aside and it is the emotions that must rule.
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Gee, I thought there was no difference: According to a study done for the European Space Agency (ESA), scientists have concluded that sending a four person all-female crew to Mars would have significant advantages over either a mixed sex crew or an all-male crew.
From the paper’s conclusion:
These estimated differences result from lower resting and exercising O2 requirements (based on available astronaut data) of theoretical female astronauts, who are lighter than theoretical male astronauts at equivalent statures and have lower relative VO2max values. These data, combined with the move towards smaller diameter space habitat modules, suggest that there may be a number of operational advantages to all-female crews during future human space exploration missions.
While there may be some minor operational advantages to only flying female astronauts on long missions, those advantages pale in comparison to the loss to humanity in the long run. You can’t settle a new world with one sex. Nor can you learn how to get there if you build your spacecraft capable of only meeting the minimum requirements.
If you go, everyone must go, or else the goal is not inclusive and diverse. Or as reader Milt noted to me when he sent me this story:
Of course, every research finding that is reported in this article flies in the face of the woke conventional wisdom that “there are no differences between men and women,” and — even better — male astronauts who wish to transition to being women must then be accepted as female in terms of mission planning, etc., lest NASA or the ESA be accused of transphobia.
In other words, this study and the entire “transgender” movement reveal the real leftist goal: Power and control. In the first case, the study says: “Give the job only to our favored oppressed sex!” In the second case the “transgender” movement says: “Obey our whims no matter what!”
Facts only matter when they help this leftist movement gain power and control. When the facts are inconvenient, the facts are tossed aside and it is the emotions that must rule.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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I might be talking out of my hat on this one but don’t biological women or as they used to say women have more sanitary needs than biological men?
So would that not outweigh the O2 difference?
Studies like this stem in part from the old school idea of ‘save every once on lift off’ at any cost.
I have thought about who to send on a never coming home colony ship. If the passengers sleep the whole way (like in science fiction) then sending an all woman crew with thousands of sperm samples could work just fine. The womb is the important piece of equipment for that type of mission.
But for a short trip like Mars send everyone needed.
Robert Zubrin in a talk (I forget which one) pointed out that there are ways to scale down a Mars Direct style mission.
One idea he suggested was not sending 6’2″ muscular men, not sure he went so far as women, but simply reducing the crew ‘size’ reduced launch mass, O2 usage, food usage, etc…
Seems kind of minimal in the grand scope of things.
But who’s gonna eat all the sandwiches?
But who is going to walk the dog?
Robert is right. If you are worried about not having the proper amount of needed supplies on your trip, you are planning it wrong.
This is why Starship is designed to carry 100 tons, so that enough supplies can be carried with each crew and mission. This is why Starship will have a cargo variety, so that supplies can be sent separately for use on the surface and for use on return trips. The return trips allow martian colonials to continue to interact with earthlings. At some point, the martians will be able to grow their own food and make their own supplies.
The problem here is one of diversity. Not the diversity of the woke crowd, but diversity of talents, skills, and abilities. If you need someone who is strong, then a large, strong woman would have to go along, but her size and needs would negate the advantages the study proclaims women have over men in the consumables domain.
From the standpoint of this paper, sailors should also be women, not men. Think of the supplies that the sailing ships of olde would not have had to take along if the crews were women, or even modern ships and submarines. Maybe miners should all be women, so that in an emergency, such as a cave-in, they would last longer and have a better chance of rescue before the air ran out. Maybe only women should be allowed to fly on planes, so that there would be a weight and fuel savings.
Scott Ott, Bill Whittle, and Steve Green had some thoughts on this topic:
https://rumble.com/v2lxq5k-chicks-on-mars.html (20 minutes, “Chicks on Mars”)
Finally, the study does admit that it is only theoretical,
Without practical experimentation to verify that other factors that were ignored do not outweigh the limited effects considered in this study, it is not a useful study for drawing any conclusions about future crews.
Real “Them” of Genius
https://youtu.be/V8hNvRohjbY
1:03
And all this time, I thought Women were from Venus.
At least there will be somebody there to raise the kids.
“They Were Looking For Women. . . To Go All The Way”
“Mars Needs Women” (1967)
Tommy Kirk, Yvonne Craig, Byron Lord
https://youtu.be/RCZazaWHh3g
1:22:09
Ann Althouse (emerita constitutional law professor at U. of WI) has observed many times in various contexts over her nearly 20-year blog that if a news article makes note of a significant difference between men and women, the woman’s characteristic is presented as superior.
Who are they going to ask: “Does my butt look fat in these pants?”
Who is going to stare at their butts for that matter?
They will go insane!