Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars?

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The New Yorker Daily: Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/...ge-to-mars

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Just send Don and Elmo.
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[RAMd®d]

I can think of a couple of crash test dummies I'd like to see explore the possibility.

[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" ...?

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.

[PeterB]

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

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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.

[davemchine]

Listening to a podcast once I heard a man say “we don’t want to go to Mars, we want a skinny pill!“

[Lux Interior]

Just add a few inches of lead shielding to the ship.

Jeez people...this isn't rocket...

Oh, wait...

[Tiangou]

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...

[Harbourmaster]

Hell just put a Cyber truck inside the capsule and it's all good!