Comments on: The Dangers of Space Fatigue

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By: Entertainment news - Being Tired In Space Is Not Necessarily A Good Thing [Unfamiliar Perils Of Space Travel]

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:33:27 +0000

[...] Source:io9 Feeling particularly irritable, stressed and likely to lash out at those around you for no good reason? Don’t worry; you’re not having some kind of nervous breakdown… at least, not if you spend a lot of time in orbit. Chances are, you’re just experiencing Space Fatigue – A condition created by SF writers in the 1950s that has become a real problem for NASA and other space agencies around the world. The concept of Space Fatigue first appeared in Adventure Comics #318, and is best summarized by the Polite Dissent blog’s description of the … Rating: (Not Rated) Loading … Share This Article [...]

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:48:36 +0000

“Scalpel rays”…is that anything like the plasmablade that’s being hyped?

http://gizmodo.com/5029056/peaks-plasmablade-is-sci+fi+like-surgical-tool-of-the-future

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:34:17 +0000

Let´s face it: Sun Boy always had some delusions of grandeur. If we were to make a diagnostic considering the patient’s history…well, you tell us

By: Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:40:13 +0000

I also assumed it was due to inflammation, doubtlessly due to the long exposure to cosmic space-rays out past the Van Allen Space-Belt, and the many sudden space-changes in space-pressure.

Also, trepanation is clearly not trepanation when it’s done using laser scalpels. Jeez. As a doctor, you should know that — lasers change *everything*.

Incidentally, I entirely forget how I came on this blog, but it’s become one of my favorite laughs every couple of days. Good schtuff.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:34:11 +0000

Space PMS?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:25:38 +0000

Seth,

You’re right – they don’t come right out an say “psychiatric,” but then this was written in the 1960s, where one did not discuss such things in polite company. You wll notice in the panels above (and other panels I didn’t scan), that the script manages to hit most of the euphemistic terms for psychiatric conditions common back then (“stress”, “personality” etc. etc.).

By: KDBryan

KDBryan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:35:08 +0000

Yes, we can all agree that Space Fatigue is incredibly dangerous . . . but what about Space Madness? It's much worse than Space Craziness, you know.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:35:29 +0000

Technically, he doesn’t say “space fatigue” is a psychiatric condition. It could just be the colloquial name of a physical condition akin to decompression illness in divers, or high-altitude sickness in mountain-climbers. This might happen for some reason to people who spend a lot of time on space missions and also are very vulnerable to the problem – which would explain why the Legionnaires don’t know about it. That is, it’s a medically known physical reaction, but very rare by the Legionnaire’s time, and Sun Boy happened to be particularly susceptible.

In fact, aren’t his symptoms a pretty good match for some sort of swelling of the brain due to inflammation?

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:27:13 +0000

Is the man that Cosmic Boy is talking to in the last panel even a doctor? Maybe Sun Boy is just a jerk, and he’s just been told to give the Legion a line about space-fatigue and scalpel-rays to get rid of them.