ADusk and Dawn Obsolete?

On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 03:52 PM, panamabob wrote:

> Both of these are natural light examples... we can state the suicidal
> tendency of folks that do not have natural daylight. Even people in
> these
> climes under natural conditions do OK until you get them working under
> artificial lights that take away the intensity or spectrum.

I've never seen any data correlating time in artificial light and
suicide rate. It would be hard to eliminate confounding factors, but it
might be possible to gather good data on this one.

The International Space Station (ISS) most important legacy may be
jump-starting space tourism. Consider: the first space tourist, Dennis
Tito, was supposed to go to the Soviet era Mir space station. Under
pressure from NASA, Russia de-orbited the Mir which resulted in Mr. Tito
going to the ISS instead. Now the Mir was old, smelly, crowded and
probably not all that nice. The ISS was brand new, shinny, much more
roomy, etc. Mr. Tito came back to Earth with glowing accounts of how
great space is. Would his experience have been as good on Mir?

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html