{"id":39254,"date":"2023-10-23T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/?p=39254"},"modified":"2023-10-23T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T18:00:34","slug":"humans-could-hibernate-their-way-to-distant-planets-says-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/world-news\/humans-could-hibernate-their-way-to-distant-planets-says-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans could ‘hibernate their way to distant planets’ says expert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hibernation will be the key to future space travel and potentially save humanity, says space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock.<\/p>\n

As explored in the Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt film Passengers, kipping our way to distant planets could save astronauts from boredom and the risks of their bones and muscles wasting away. Hibernation is where body temperature drops and heartbeats and breathing slow down, usually seen in animals like bears to survive cold winters. <\/p>\n

Dr Maggie says: \u201cYou don\u2019t need so much infrastructure in terms of life support but at the same time if you\u2019re talking about deep space, perhaps going to another star in our galaxy, that\u2019s a journey of 40 trillion kilometres. Using current technology that would take 76,000 years, so a bit of a snooze!"<\/p>\n

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"Hibernation and reducing that is definitely the way of the future. We talk about the positivity of finding life out there \u2013 we\u2019re finding exoplanets going around these distant stars we see in the night sky.<\/p>\n

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"If we do find life \u2013 or in terms of colonisation an Earth-like planet \u2013 and want to move out so we don\u2019t have all our eggs in one basket, having these types of technology will be useful so humanity is saved for another day."<\/p>\n

We recently revealed Carol Vorderman's daughter Katie King's company BioOrbit has been given sponsorship and backing from the European Space Agency to make cancer-zapping chemo drugs in space. Dr Maggie says: "I\u2019ve met Carol a few times and she\u2019s a force to be reckoned with so the fact her daughter is breaking through glass ceilings and reaching for the sky does not surprise me at all.<\/p>\n

"Lots of things can be done in space in that microgravity environment. You have a set up for doing experiments and drug trials which might be challenging here on Earth.<\/p>\n

"It shows the power of the International Space Station and countries around the world collaborating to put this floating laboratory in space. There's lots of things we can do up there."<\/p>\n

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