NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year ⁠47%

By Lindsay Clark⁠0%

7/3/2026, 11:21:00 PM

Keywords: Nasa, Science, Space

BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Framing Effect, and Pessimism Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 34.3% saturation with 120 hits. Analysis detected 746 faulty-reasoning hits from 350 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠47% (11,713 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 53.50% of the article peer group.

For those growing sick of Earth's geopolitics, NASA is looking for volunteers to spend a year living and working in isolated conditions in preparation for a journey to some other celestial orb. 
The US space agency is set to carry out a simulated deep space mission from no earlier than August 2027 to understand what might happen to its human lab rats during planned crewed missions to the Moon or Mars. 
Johnson Space Center in Houston will be home to the willing participants who are set for a yearlong Moon and Mars Exploration Analog experience designed to help keep potential space travelers safe and mission-ready during future stays on the Red Planet or Earth's natural satellite. 
The simulation could also inform plans for a sustained lunar presence through the agency's Moon Base and future Artemis missions. 
The "experience" will take place in two confined habitats. 
The NASA notice does not say whether there will be outside comms, but specifies physical and educational requirements, as well as a willingness to take part in a multi-day selection process and pass a psychological assessment. 
"Candidates also should have a strong desire for unique, rewarding experiences, and interest in contributing to NASA's work to prepare for extended stays on the lunar surface and the first crewed mission to Mars," the notice says. 
Given the state of affairs, there may well be a flood of applicants who feel skipping a year would be well worth the inevitable curbs on their freedoms. 
Nonetheless, they may wonder about the world they will emerge to find when the experiment ends. 
Will WWE star Cody Rhodes be running for president, given the recent showcase on the White House lawn? 
Anything is possible in a world that shows an unnerving resemblance to Mike Judge's 2006 Idiocracy. 
Then again, given the perilous state of NASA's funding under the Trump regime, it is always possible volunteers could fall victim to cuts while they were in isolation, leaving no one to tell them the experiment had reached its end. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 2.0%The Register: 3.3%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 2.7%The Register: 1.0%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 8.0%Lindsay Clark: 3.5%The Register: 3.2%Availability Heuristic8.0%This article: 5.1%Lindsay Clark: 1.6%The Register: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic5.1%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 1.5%The Register: 1.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 2.4%The Register: 2.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 19.7%Lindsay Clark: 8.2%The Register: 5.0%Framing Effect19.7%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.7%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.8%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 9.1%Lindsay Clark: 5.0%The Register: 3.0%Optimism Bias9.1%This article: 19.4%Lindsay Clark: 4.2%The Register: 2.6%Pessimism Bias19.4%This article: 34.3%Lindsay Clark: 8.2%The Register: 8.2%Negativity Bias34.3%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 2.6%The Register: 1.9%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.4%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 12.9%Lindsay Clark: 4.0%The Register: 1.4%Halo Effect12.9%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 5.1%Lindsay Clark: 1.7%The Register: 1.9%Recency Bias5.1%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.7%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.7%The Register: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 4.0%The Register: 4.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 1.7%The Register: 1.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 11.4%Lindsay Clark: 2.7%The Register: 1.2%Slippery Slope11.4%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 1.2%The Register: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 8.0%Lindsay Clark: 4.9%The Register: 6.2%Hasty Generalization8.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.4%The Register: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 4.6%Lindsay Clark: 4.4%The Register: 3.0%Appeal to Emotion4.6%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 5.1%Lindsay Clark: 3.6%The Register: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)5.1%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.7%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.9%The Register: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 2.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 3.4%The Register: 2.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.4%The Register: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.0%The Register: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.7%The Register: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 10.6%Lindsay Clark: 3.5%The Register: 2.3%Unattributed Quote10.6%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 1.6%The Register: 1.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 26.3%Lindsay Clark: 10.6%The Register: 7.3%Biased Writer Voice26.3%This article: 9.1%Lindsay Clark: 0.7%The Register: 1.5%Indoctrination9.1%This article: 0.0%Lindsay Clark: 0.9%The Register: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 11.4%Lindsay Clark: 1.8%The Register: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias11.4%This article: 12.9%Lindsay Clark: 10.0%The Register: 2.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…12.9%

350 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers37%attributed speech219writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
NASA • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 32 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 39 words • 100.0% coverageJohnson Space Center • 45 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageNASA • 36 words • 0.0% coverageNASA • 37 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 40 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Johnson Space Center

100%flagged-word coverage
45 attributed words34% of attributed speech90% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Johnson Space Center: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-42.0 ptsWriter: 42.0%Johnson Space Center: 0.0%0.0%Politically Right Leaning -18.3 ptsWriter: 18.3%Johnson Space Center: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-14.6 ptsWriter: 14.6%Johnson Space Center: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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