it's not just "fraught with risk"it's physically impossible with current technology for humans to survive a trip to Mars and live on the surfacespace really, really wants to kill lifecosmic rays will kill humans before they even make it to Marsthere is no current technology that shields from cosmic rayswe should appreciate the earth greatly for its atmosphere and magnetosphere that shields us from thembest emulation idea so far is to surround astronauts with several feet of waterbut we don't have the lift capacity for that much water weightthe total time on the moon outside the capsule per person maximum was 22 hoursthe astronauts kept seeing bursts of light even with their eyes closedwhen NASA inspected the helmets there were microscopic groove where some had made it all the way throughcosmic rays are physical particles traveling near the speed of lightthe bursts of light were their nerves and other cells being destroyed by the cosmic raysit was happening to their brains and CNS toomice exposed to simulated cosmic rays became slow and stupid
> it's physically impossible with current technology for humans to survive a trip to Mars and live on the surfaceYou seem to say this as if it’s some sort of enlightened reason to “not”Instead, I suspect for many, enumerating, quantifying and solving the impossible is precisely the reason we venture into the unknown.
Respectfully, this is one of the many starry-eyed "we seek to achieve the impossible" posts in these comments that refuses to address the practical realities. You're not going to erase radiation exposure with a motivational speech.
You’re not going to land on the moon by standing at a podium and saying “we do hard things because they’re hard” either.We call moon shots “moon shots” because we landed on the moon and generated incredible generational wealth from the technology in the process.Had we not, we would call moon shots something else.
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it's physically impossible with current technology for humans to survive a trip to Mars and live on the surface
space really, really wants to kill life
cosmic rays will kill humans before they even make it to Mars
there is no current technology that shields from cosmic rays
we should appreciate the earth greatly for its atmosphere and magnetosphere that shields us from them
best emulation idea so far is to surround astronauts with several feet of water
but we don't have the lift capacity for that much water weight
the total time on the moon outside the capsule per person maximum was 22 hours
the astronauts kept seeing bursts of light even with their eyes closed
when NASA inspected the helmets there were microscopic groove where some had made it all the way through
cosmic rays are physical particles traveling near the speed of light
the bursts of light were their nerves and other cells being destroyed by the cosmic rays
it was happening to their brains and CNS too
mice exposed to simulated cosmic rays became slow and stupid
r3trohack3r · · focus · HN ↗
You seem to say this as if it’s some sort of enlightened reason to “not”
Instead, I suspect for many, enumerating, quantifying and solving the impossible is precisely the reason we venture into the unknown.
vor_ · · focus · HN ↗
r3trohack3r · · focus · HN ↗
We call moon shots “moon shots” because we landed on the moon and generated incredible generational wealth from the technology in the process.
Had we not, we would call moon shots something else.