The worst problems with long-term spaceflight are not technical

Apollo command and service module
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The worst problems with long-term spaceflight are not technical

In scientific and fictional books and writings and films, the problems of the long-term spaceflight have been mentioned the technical and physiological problems, like long-term staying in the zero-gravity would make muscles so weak that the astronauts cannot walk on the destiny, and that thing causes many dangerous visions.

What if they would be too weak to climb up the stairs with their spacesuits, or those suits would be too heavy anyway. The worst problems are social, and the biggest question is, what happens if somebody would get angry?

Or what if somebody gets hurt? What if some member of the crew is the wrong choice, and that member of the crew starts to cheat other members? When the spacecraft would travel between Earth and Mars, there is no way to take control of the situation, if somebody would start to act dangerously? What would those people do in that case?

There have been some horror stories, which are located in the space, and one of the most horrific scenarios is that, what if there would be a serial killer in the crew. In that case, the flight control must just decrease the gas pressure, that all the crew members would get unable to operate, and the craft would remote controlled back to Earth.

But there is another version of this kind of problem, and that is, what if some crew member would not dare to land to another planet? Or how the administration will recruit a member of the team, whoever lands to another planet? How to tell that person, that the role is vital, but there is no glory? That there would not any public question about that member of the team.

This kind of thoughts has raised in my mind one question about the social tests, what are made in the closed environment. That is "how realistic those experiments are in the real-life"? Would the test controllers tell those members of the test team, that their family members are dead if some kind of accident would happen? Or would the commanding team of the Mars-flight tell that thing to crew member, if that kind of sad thing will happen?

What if Operation Valkyrie was a success?

What if Operation Valkyrie was a success?

Here I would not write operation "Valkyrie" itself. I would think about what kind of influence that attentate was and what could happen if the "Valkyrie-plan" what is the name of the famous attentate against Adolph Hitler would be a success. Today is 75 years from the famous 20. July 1944 attentate against Adolph Hitler. And still on the air hovers the question "what if the attentate was a success"?

 Was the rule of Nazi Germany turned to the hands of Heirich Himmler or Wilhelm Keitel? Or could those men try to make peace with the Western allies?  Or could the German military fight longer, if Adolph Hitler was dead? Those questions have been asked about this case, what has been filmed as "Operation Valkyrie".

Those questions are good to think even today when it takes 75 years from the case when  Colonel Carl von Stauffenberg carried a bomb in the headquarters of Adolph Hitler. And here we must realize, that this attentate might be a success if that turned Hitler straight to madness, where he couldn't make decisions, and other personnel of his staff continued to follow that madman orders. That thing can cause more damages that the successful assassination could ever cause.

Romans said that the war was a too important thing, that they could leave it for soldiers alone. That means that soldiers need political control, to accomplish their mission for defending the nation. 

The mental problems of Adolph Hitler caused that German military faced many casualties, and people dare not to tell that something was wrong because failure meant death. When we are thinking the position of Von Stauffenberg and military men in that time, their mission was to follow orders. And that is the thing, what we must realize when we are thinking about the motives of Stauffenberg. Maybe the death of Hitler would not change a thing in that nation.

The thing is that also modern military men must follow their rules and that thing makes persons like Hitler a little bit complicated to those people, who are working in the military forces around the world. The question is always should they follow also the orders, what are given by the madman. There are no clear answers to that kind of questions.

The thing is that the military forces must operate under political control and the main role of those organizations is to defend their homelands. And in the cases of dictators, there is a danger that the leader of the state would be replaced by another one, who continues the same policy. But this is a very interesting way of think about the plan, what could change history.

The question, what hovers in the air is would that assassination change the situation better or worse. Would the persecutions continue after the attentate? Or would the leader of the state turn to hands of people like Himmler and Kaltenbrunner, who could be even worse than Hitler himself? Here I didn't write about the operation itself, because there is so much material about that case in the net.

Why many persons, who make YouTube videos have mental problems?

Why many persons, who make YouTube videos have mental problems?

Here we might face the thing, that many creative persons have had and still have mental problems. The second thing is that the persons, who are making social media are open and dare to speak and write about things that have been taboo, but for us who are working in and using the Internet every day, the open social media has brought the thing, that people are always some kind of different.

When we are thinking about the talking of the mental problems, and compare the makers of the social media to the people like actors, rock stars or some other people like poets and writers, the thing can be, that in the history many workers, who worked in the cultural sector had mental problems. And that this would not make the movies and poems worse, that the main character or the actor, who plays the main role have been a little bit different. So the makers of social media are similar to writers and actors, and they don't have any differences with some Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley.

When we are talking about the mental problems, we are sometimes facing the case, that some people are delivering things like medical examinations, when they are trying to keep people out from social media. When we are talking about things like a dare to say something we must realize, that on the internet, we are seeing things that are more shocking and daring than ever before.

I have always asked from myself, that is it possible that new kind of open sexuality like pride parades and as the marginal phenomenon the net pornography have caused that people are talking more openly about things like mental problems. Why people are not allowed to speak about those problems? Other people are talking freely and open way about their sexuality. So why mental disorders have been out of discussions?

 Schizophrenia and Psychosis have been medical disorders but in fact, the thing is that they are "just the diagnosis", but the person, who has those medical diseases might not be allowed to talk about those things, but in the television, the people like serial killers are talking about how they feel in jail. And those serial killers are the marginal group of mental patients. But there is always some kind of marginal cases as represented in the television.

Some group of the people, who have difficulties to get the jobs. But when we are thinking about dangerous things, the people who are narcoleptic can suddenly get sleep while driving the car, and then somebody can get killed. And here we are forgetting a thing, that the ordinary people, who are drinking too much alcohol or get a too short period of sleep before driving the car is more dangerous than some narcoleptic patient are the most dangerous if they are driving heavy transport vehicles.