Gopher65 wrote
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Again, that's not astronomy, that's xenogeology. Nothing to do with astronomy. Totally seperate fields (almost). Just as space travel is totally seperate from astronomy.
Astronomy is about one thing: looking up at stuff in the sky. It has nothing whatsoever to do with geology or space travel or anything else. Certainly astronomers might be interested in what space travel can tell them about what they are looking at, but it isn't the same thing, and there isn't much direct overlap.
*/mebeingstupid*
Whoa I got off topic. I wasn't trying to argue that astronomy isn't related to geology or space travel or anything (but I did anyway for some reason:P), but that it is no different than Psychiatry. If you don't bother checking the mental health of your astronaunts some bad things will happen. How is that any less important to space travel than astronomy is? And therefore since space travel is of interest to astronomers, Psychiatry should be too, because Psychiatry is necessary for a successful manned flight.
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in the BABBling forum I think complaining that if we discuss geological and other sciences in the astronomy thread then one could discuss psychiatry there as well.
While I understand his point that one could discuss the psychological impact of space flight or something like that in this forum, the field of psychiatry does not overlap astronomy the way geology and other Earth sciences do. How can you have a field of astronomy that didn't include the geology of planetary and other bodies? Gopher, are you implying the geology of Mars is not part of astronomy? Or are you implying Earth is not included in planetary studies? I don't get it.