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Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars? - special - 02-13-2025
The New Yorker Daily: Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/17/can-the-human-body-endure-a-voyage-to-mars
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Just send Don and Elmo.
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Re: Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars? - RAMd®d - 02-13-2025
I can think of a couple of crash test dummies I'd like to see explore the possibility.
Re: Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars? - Tiangou - 02-14-2025
Easy answer...
No. Not a chance. Horrible, painful, oozing cancers and liquefied organs. Brain swelling. Eyes swelling and popping out of the sockets. Blood pouring out from your eyes and ears. Remember that scene from the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" ...?
And if you somehow make it there with any mobility left, the effects of gravity after months in space would leave you completely incapacitated on Mars.
Re: Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars? - PeterB - 02-14-2025
Tiangou wrote:
Easy answer...
No. Not a chance. Horrible, painful, oozing cancers and liquefied organs. Brain swelling. Eyes swelling and popping out of the sockets. Blood pouring out from your eyes and ears. Remember that scene from the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" ...?
Actually, the more on-target scene is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5TqD5xf0ic
Re: Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars? - special - 02-14-2025
PeterB wrote:
[quote=Tiangou]
Easy answer...
No. Not a chance. Horrible, painful, oozing cancers and liquefied organs. Brain swelling. Eyes swelling and popping out of the sockets. Blood pouring out from your eyes and ears. Remember that scene from the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" ...?
Actually, the more on-target scene is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5TqD5xf0ic
That's why I want those 2 gone.
Re: Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars? - davemchine - 02-14-2025
Listening to a podcast once I heard a man say “we don’t want to go to Mars, we want a skinny pill!“
Re: Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars? - Lux Interior - 02-14-2025
Just add a few inches of lead shielding to the ship.
Jeez people...this isn't rocket...
Oh, wait...
Re: Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars? - Tiangou - 02-15-2025
Lux Interior wrote:
Just add a few inches of lead shielding to the ship.
Jeez people...this isn't rocket...
Oh, wait...
The problem with "shielding..."
Passive shielding is effective at stopping lower energy particles. It can help protect against high energy particles, but to do so completely is costly due to enormous mass requirements. The total mass necessary to conservatively protect humans on a 500 day Mars mission with isotropically-placed shielding is estimated to be around 1280 metric tons, the equivalent of 32 heavy-lift launches...
Re: Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars? - Harbourmaster - 02-15-2025
Hell just put a Cyber truck inside the capsule and it's all good!