Is it true that the human brain cannot function in the outer space ?

Question

Is it true that the human brain cannot function in the outer space ? It can only function within the boundary/sphere of some magnetic fields or The Earth's gravity.

cos i heard some conspiracy that man has never gone outter space ...they were all hoaX...

i mean they have never escaped the magnetic force of the Earth. Even if they are the at space station...they are still subject to some magnetic pull ...since the space men and the stations are still orbiting around the Earth. That's why their brains still functioning. And those who really did escaped the force, they died or something.

Dear DaVE,

ur rite man, that's why our brains are born to live with magnetic fields or pull from the Earth. If they were to be sent away from the Earth at a point where it is in between the planets where there is no magnetic fields. The brain might not be able to think or they died. Seems men have never gone farther than the moon.

Answer 1

If that were true, then we would never be able to put humans into orbit around the earth -- they'd all die due to lack of brain activity. The same would be true for the astronauts who went to the moon and returned -- alive. And since we know that our astronauts have been to space, and tothe moon, and have returned (for the most part) safely, we can squelch that idea easily.

There is absolutely no truth to that theory. And no reason for it to be true. We are immersed in electromagnetic radiations of all sorts every day -- and our brains and bodies have adapted (through evolution) to account for it.

Answer 2

As other folks have pointed out, man has operated fine in the moon's influence and away from the earths boundaries. There is no physical evidence that an organism would not operate at extreme distances from the Earth, however, if you mean operating in the sense of staying sane, then that's quite another matter. I can't imagine being as far away as say Saturn, the disconnection from Earth may prove too much given the time it would take to return to home.

Answer 3

Read some books on astrobiology, and how life evolved on Earth, which is part of an extremely unusual planet/moon system, solar system, highly metalliferous single G2 star system, 2/3 rds of the distance from the dangerous hub of the galactic centre, to the rim, in the relatively safe part of a spiral galaxy. Find out about "snowball Earth", and how for billions of years before that, there were only single celled organisms. (My hypothesis is that partially toxic/mutagenic heavy metals, combined with sulphur compounds released by undersea volcanism, were trapped under the ice, permitting single cells floating past in the tidal streams, channelled by that gaseous flow from below, and the ice above, and thereby concentrated into aggregates, to survive and later reproduce, because only the outer parts were exposed, whereas the single ones were attacked from all sides, and killed. This may have come about due to surface tension effects on bubbles of gas, moving those well distributed, free floating prokaryotes upward, from their former 3D existence, to a semi 2D one, conglomerated between bubbles of gas, hitting the ice above, but warmed by the currents from below, which would have accelerated the process). An analogy is the penguins in Antarctica, which congregate in one large mass, so as to expose only the minimum of area to the coldness of the dark Antarctic winter. Another is the way the Jews, Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, political enemies, and undesirables, managed to survive the cattle trucks of the Nazi concentration camp trains to Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka, etc., in winter, with minimal clothing, (if any), by rotating the freezing outermost people into the warmer centre. Using an updated version of the Drake equation, I estimate that there are/have been/will be only several roughly similar "doppelgangers" of the Earth, at most, in this galaxy. There are thought to be around a hundred billion galaxies, but only a small proportion of those are spiral galaxies, like the Milky Way. When the timing of mass extinctions is taken into account, and the fact that intelligent animals do not necessarily invent, or develop advanced technology, (Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Japanese, Mayans, Aztecs, Toltecs, etc.) I strongly doubt that there will ever be contact with alien races. There is zero possibility of ever contacting true humans, although "humanoid" forms are a remote possibility.

Answer 4

No. There is no reason to believe this. There are no physical laws that change with distance from the Earth, and we have had hundreds of people operating just fine in space. Some as far as the moon (outside the magnetic field of Earth, and outside Earth's primary gravitational influence).

Answer 5

Once the brain did not function in space, maybe the result of this is not only just a failure of the mission...but also death of the astronauts. So if it is true, why does NASA keep on sending astronauts in space, and why do astronauts succeed in their missions, if their brains are not functioning?

Answer 6

No, that is not true. We have astronauts in space al the time on the International Space Station and they experience no difficulty.

WHERE did you get that idea?

Answer 7

Its not true because then how would astronanuts go up in to space?

Answer 8

If you are in a space suit it will still work.

Answer 9

no