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by ceejayoz
2435 days ago
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> What I haven't seen are actual solutions for how to deal with the radiation. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/science/space/data-show-h... "According to the National Cancer Institute, the lifetime risk of dying from cancer is 21 percent; the two-thirds of a sievert from a round-trip mission to Mars would raise that risk by three percentage points, to 24 percent." Mars advocates like Zubrin argue the "acceptable dose limits" are exceedingly conservative, and that NASA willingly permitted far more dangerous operations (like the Shuttle) than radiation incurs. > It's certainly never been tested before. Sure it has. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500 |
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