{"id":138828,"date":"2022-04-30T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/heres-why-hibernation-in-space-may-not-be-possible-for-humans-after-all"},"modified":"2022-04-30T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T14:03:07","slug":"heres-why-hibernation-in-space-may-not-be-possible-for-humans-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/heres-why-hibernation-in-space-may-not-be-possible-for-humans-after-all","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Why Hibernation in Space May Not Be Possible For Humans After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-why-hibernation-in-space-may-not-be-possible-for-humans-after-all2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sending humans virtually anywhere in space beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/moon\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"the Moon\">the Moon<\/a> pushes logistics of <a href=\"https:\/\/www-sciencealert-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/long-hauls-in-space-seems-to-increase-brain-damage-risk-study-finds\">health<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www-sciencealert-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/cyanobacteria-can-be-grown-in-mars-conditions-opening-avenues-for-human-life-support\">food<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www-sciencealert-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/how-scientists-in-antarctica-enter-an-extreme-state-of-psychological-hibernation\">psychology<\/a> to limits we\u2019re only just beginning to grasp.<\/p>\n<p>A staple solution to these problems in science fiction is to simply put the void-travelers to bed for a while. In a sleep-like state akin to hibernation or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/torpor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">torpor<\/a>, metabolism drops, and the mind is spared the boredom of waiting out endless empty hours.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike faster-than-light travel and wormholes, the premise of putting astronauts into a form of hibernation feels like it\u2019s within grasp. Enough so that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Hibernate_for_a_trip_to_Mars_the_bear_way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even the European Space Agency<\/a> is seriously looking into the science behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sending humans virtually anywhere in space beyond the Moon pushes logistics of health, food, and psychology to limits we\u2019re only just beginning to grasp. A staple solution to these problems in science fiction is to simply put the void-travelers to bed for a while. In a sleep-like state akin to hibernation or torpor, metabolism drops, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}