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Re:New generation artificial heart implanted in patient
on Friday July 16, 2021 @07:24AM (#27855138)
They implanted plutonium powered pacemakers in the 1970s.
Unfortunately we moved away from the Jetson's future.
Re:What You Can Learn from Living in Antarctica
on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:01AM (#25148653)
It is a very different environment with different challenges, it isn't that useful an analog. Many of the Antarctica challenges relate to the ice.
One thing it does share (on smaller stations, not McMurdo) is the isolation and the impact on social structures. Concordia, run by the French and Italians, it has an ongoing relationship with the European Space Agency.