This Mission To Mars Could Bore You To Death Summary

“Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death!.” by Maggie Koerth-Baker explains the physique consequences a person can experience when embarking into a space expedition. The article presents the reasons behind an experiment that is done to six people living in a secluded area in Hawaii. Such an experiment is done with the purpose of exploring the human behavior when face to extreme boredom. Furthermore, the intention of the experiment is to compare the experience of the six people in Hawaii with astronauts in space. One of the advantage as suggested by the author of the article of doing the experiment in earth is to having the ability to control the environment where the subjects are been treated. According to Koerh-Baker extreme boredom can compromise important missions in space. Consequently, in its efforts to understand how human brains work under extreme boredom, NASSA participates as one of the contributor of the project in Hawaii. …show more content…
The experiment in Hawaii helps to understand the consequences that extended periods of time in space can cause to the brains of astronauts. Some of the ideas expose by the author conclude that boredom can be as harmful as stress. Moreover, bored astronauts in the search for some kind of stimuli can jeopardize the expedition if no training or understanding is done in earth before launching into space. According to the article boredom is the lack of stimuli and promotes the search for something out of the ordinary. One of the motives to research the effects of boredom in people is to be able to prevent accidents in space. As one of the signs of a bored mind is to become more susceptible to depression, reckless behavior and increase risk taking. All of those are extreme measures of the brain to keep normal