Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars

Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by dvdfvo on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @07:49PM (#9573866)

Yes. A difference of 4 orders of magnitude.

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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by burnte on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @10:05PM (#9574294)

It's actually less than one order of magnitude. If it were variable from 6 to 60 then it'd be a full order of magnitude, but never four.

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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by sfilipov on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @11:26PM (#9574496)

I believe he meant transporting information compared to transporting physical goods to Mars. The first takes minutes, the other - hundreds of days.

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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by dvdfvo on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @03:23PM (#9578581)

Yes. I though it was obvious from the context of my parent comment.

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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by napoleond on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @11:00PM (#9574432)

I assume they mean from ~200ms to ~20min (i.e. comparing to Earth RTT), which is indeed 4 orders of magnitude.

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