Low level stuff, maybe
not anything at higher level. It's about how your mind is able to function. Unless you can disconnect the human mind's innate tendency to visualise problems, you're fucked in maths and physics for a start. And most people can't do that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:53, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Nah, I think you're totally underestimating the minds ability to adapt.
Someone who is mentally normal, should be able to do everything they're asked for on a mission like this if they have enough training and practice.
They're not going to be able to unify various theories but they're there to observe experiment record and transmit the information.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 15:59, Reply)

I'm not underestimating at all
I get your point, but I feel that anyone not of a serious scientific bent is going to be little more than a glorified probe. Admittedly, you'd also want someone able to rapidly adapt, repair things, make snap decisions, etc, which a probe would be shit at. And actually, most good scientists would be shit at too ;)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 16:15, Reply)

so they might as well give the job
to someone who was scientifically trained but not necessarily to the top standard, pyschologically adapted to being alone for the rest of their life, and had excellent decision making and adaption skills. And had something else to offer on top of that.

I'm really not fitting the bill here
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 16:18, Reply)