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sartresue
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23 Oct 2009, 10:24 am
ruveyn wrote:
Tim_Tex wrote:
If I didn't already have so many other obligations, I would consider it.
The quickest possible trip to Mars takes six months. During which, you wold loose 30 percent of your bone tissue in a free-fall flight. Then you would have to wait another year and a half on Mars for a quick return flight. On Mars you would experience 1/8 earth gravity and loose more calcium. To say nothing of what cosmic rays and solar emission would do you your body. You see, once sufficiently far out from Earth there is no more magnetosphere to protect your bod from charged particle radiation from the sun.
So back you come with over half your bone tissue gone, probably shot through with cancer from solar and cosmic radiation and a wicked case of cataracts of the eye because of cosmic radiation. In short the trip would half kill you and if you survived it it would take years to get back some of your health.
Happy voyage!
ruveyn
No place like home topic
I am glad my earlier passion for a Martian Voyage has waned.
Now I know why aliens look so hideous.
