With an American and a Russian colleague, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi launched into space today in a Soyuz spacecraft, bringing with him the first sushi ever taken into orbit:
If you were going up, what food would you take with you?
Link via Popular Science | Photo: NASA
"We had training in Japan and I trained (my space colleagues) to be sushi lovers, so I am going to make a couple of flavors of sushi," Noguchi told a press conference ahead of Monday's launch of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
"...Some sashimi, and raw fish and sushi and I will bring that up to the space station to share with my crew."
According to NASA, normal fare on the space station includes staples like mushroom soup, macaroni and cheese, or chicken and rice.
On the Russian side, there is tinned perch, curds with nuts and beetroot soup (borscht) sucked through a straw from a plastic bag.
If you were going up, what food would you take with you?
Link via Popular Science | Photo: NASA
Comments (4)
sushi delivery
And wasabi that also can double as backup rocket fuel....
however, there are folks who have been "locked-in" and there was one (disturbing) research investigation into awareness levels of vegetative patients that showed brain activity consistent with awareness -- here's the pubmed entry:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16959998
"We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate preserved conscious awareness in a patient fulfilling the criteria for a diagnosis of vegetative state. When asked to imagine playing tennis or moving around her home, the patient activated predicted cortical areas in a manner indistinguishable from that of healthy volunteers."
note that the researcher's findings have not been verified or replicated, but the study and research is probably still very solid science.
Also, Frontline did a very good documentary in '93 on FC.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3439467496200920717#
Thank goodness James Randi is still out there. It sounds like a human Ouija board.
Thanks for that link! Fascinating video, watched the whole thing.
What's really sad is that the experts and the so-called doctor journalist just take this at face value. And I have to consider that this story is being promoted cynically right now just to inflame anti health care reform sentiment.
Just how long has this particular "facilitation" gone on? Who initiated it and why? How long did it take for the "facilitator" to produce communication and what's the supposed process (feeling micro muscle twitches or is there a psychic claim?) and who does the "facilitator" work for?
Further experiments (e.g. in which the child was shown an image not shown to the facilitator and asked to describe it) showed the communication to be entirely that of the facilitator.
These experiments are easily implemented and would quickly set the record straight for this subject, as well, were the patient's family (and doctors?) not wedded to the false hope provided by what is almost certainly a farce.
The paper doesn't mention facilitation. Nor does it mention communication, except as one measure in assessing vegetative state.
If Randi is dead, then there's been a cover-up of epic proportions :)
But I think that misses the point here. The patient may well be conscious; that doesn't imply anything about whether he's communicating.
I've seen facilitators facilitate while only touching an elbow or shoulder. Where are you all getting your information that facilitation "doesnt work" if the facilitator isn't looking at the keyboard.
(facilitation while only touching the elbow)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyjl4p2mNK4
How would they get the information to transmit while only touching a person's elbow or shoulder? How could a paralyzed person transmit any instructions through that elbow or shoulder as specific as "press A on the keyboard"?
Why doesn't Stephen Hawkings use s facilitator? Because he would disprove what they're doing. Strange how the only people that this supposedly wosks with are people who can not confirm the facilitator's accuracy.