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Redefining normality through technology and exploration | Loredana Bessone | TEDxBologna


[Music]
good afternoon
I would like to ask you for a moment
come with me in space I would like to
ask you to become for a moment
astronauts
close your eyes keep closed and
always with eyes closed
nothing happens, so keep the
eyes closed look around and
try to perceive the sensations that
the space that is giving now back with the
feet on the ground
some of you especially if you have seen
maybe the first man will have thought of
be on the moon maybe with neil
armstrong or they will have thought of
be on the space station with
samantha cristoforetti or maybe even
paolo nespoli or go out in a small way
spacewalk with Luke parmitano
or maybe with curiosity on mars or
also planting potatoes with matteo or
maybe you thought you were on
probe rosette and get closer to that
nature that the comet 67p do not know how many
but you have heard of it
lightness of the friend gravity or have
perceived the heaviness and the pressure
of a diving suit on your body
this is the problem we have
astronaut instructors we must
teach how to do things in an environment in
which we have never been space
so therefore the space must be
simulate it I need to create it or
we must go and look for one
land of environments that are environments
terrestrial analogs and these environments
must simulate depends can simulate
the surface of a planet as in
this case rather the interior that
inside a space station or
rather than
outside the space station for
a space walk or even
possibly the inside of a cave a
Lava tube on the moon so many
similar and similar analogues
we must try to enter because in the
2004 I had the experience of trying it
nasa’s diving suit to good news
indeed facility of the nasa
I tried the diving suit this cup
should go country to 100 kg then having
100 kilos on your shoulders you can not
moving with the diving suit is necessary
enter the water then you will be taken
with a crane that will drop you inside
of the pool once you are
inside two security divas there
will lead to a handrail that has
attached to a station form
space that is inside the
pool and then you have to move
good question now move yourself
inside the instructors of the nasa vi
they will not argue with a diving suit
I had a fight for four hours
because they actually move
one is not easy within something
diving suit is a spacecraft in all
and for all it protects them from emptiness there
protects against micro meteorites protects you
from radiation
offers you vida communications from the area
breathe also rockets to move
in the case that there for test and a little
in space but it is bad and terrible
move in this diving suit when I am
come back from this experience
I was trying to create with a colleague
in progress to let the future learn
European astronauts how to become gods
excellent of the excellent spacewalker ei
our instructors who had brought me
in this experience they told me
that this not three types of astronauts i
astronauts who try but not
they can never really manage to
move well in this diving suit then there
they are the ones who will succeed in time
learn
and then there are those who are gods
spatial dancers who put themselves
inside a diving suit as if there
they were born within my goal was
to teach future astronauts
Europeans to become dancers
space so I started thinking
what are the feelings that I have
tried in this extreme environment
because this is very extreme
diving suit to try and explain them
how they can move and I have been
a few hours in the pool with mine
fellow at the end I realized that
the way I would have succeeded
really moving as I moved
in the diving suit was to think about it
paralyzed that is from the basin down
do not have your legs be completely
realized only in this way I would be
managed to move me using my arms
without using the twist of the body that
totally useless, it does not suit a lot
Origin a Russian consummate told me
some time ago that an astronaut
ideal is not a note without legs because
the legs are totally useless in the
space depends on where in space
obviously but where in microgravity it is not
you need Luke Parmitano said one
presentation we have done together
a few years ago in Padova that
it would be great to have a prehensile tail
because it would allow you to be attacked by
somewhere and at the same time
keep using your arms to do
things because you have to do things in the end
in reality we are adapted
to the environment in which we live that the
earth and our cradle this is a
environment in which we feel at
our environment is comfortable
evolved a different environment like it
space requires the ability that we
we have to suffer with technology
sometimes even becoming bionic sometimes
even thinking of changing those
that are the capabilities of our body
ethical is not known, however, would allow us to
adapt to that environment
extreme environment that we want
visit both the oceans can be
of the cavity pipes of rava can be the
ice an ice cap can be
also a space, for example, space
type mars from any environment
extreme will require us protection for
our body then a diving suit
whatever a suit of the helmets something
to communicate therefore technology there
will ask to have rovers as in
this case a submarine robot there
he will ask to have anyway anyway
technologies that will help us to suffer
to those who are our shortcomings the
our incompleteness in that environment
to be able to reach places too
that are not accessible so we would have
need drones we will need robots
that allow us to go where we are
for our human limitations not
we would be able to go there
we perceive normality as something
particular when it comes to a
extreme environment the normality for me and
redefinition of adaptation to the environment
where we are we are perfectly
adapted to the terrestrial environment
if we change the parameters of this
ecosystem automatically we become
of the disabled and we have to substitute a
these disabilities trying to use
ingenuity technology also becoming
bionics learning with a lot of humility between
the other to move an environment in which
we are not absolutely adapted to
live in this case the inmates up
luca parmitano a cave in sicily that
at 30 degrees with 100 percent humidity
very difficult and the photo you have
seen before was a young man we have
used to explore a well was at 40
degrees of humility but of temperature
with 100 percent humidity
we must redefine in these cases
what is our normality now there
I ask again to close my eyes
nothing will happen so close them
but this time you think you are the
astronauts
inside a diving suit on the moon
and having to go down inside a tube
of lava but this time you feel the
heaviness of this diving suit on you
feel the difficulty of moving your hands
that are inside of very thick gloves
and pressurized that do not leave you
grab the rope you need to use e
that you have to attach to your diving suit
your horse is very stiff you
you have to move you have to bend you have to
be able to enter an area that will be
dark so you need the light is
your helmet to a visor your face
start again to fog up because you are
breathing very hard
now open your eyes think for one
moment to the people here on earth
they are not adapted like you to live one
normal life because they have those that we
we call people who are disabilities
disabled
these people are actually astronauts
on earth they could be gods
perfect instructors because they understood
perfectly how to adapt and live
also how to make the most out of it
the extreme environment that our earth
technology makes them become
bionics makes us understand how effectively
we can with technology become of
supermen for me they are super
heroes of our time
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