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    Accept these facts before u watch any "humanz goto marz" bs.:

    We have multiple levels of isolation shields, specialized materials protecting the human skin, and a brand new radiation eating fungi.

    But we still have to deal with:

    - Heavy ions of unknown origin (hehe fuck next level "space" radiation :D)
    - Larger particles hitting the vessel at tremendous speed.
    - Absence of gravity directly affecting the human body, especially circulation.

    Any of these 3 can directly endanger by their very nature the success of the journey.

    There is no way humans can survive in space before solving these problems and any long distance space travel is a waste of time/resources.
    Our biggest problem with space isn't darkness, or jet propulsion efficiency and trajectory.

    It is the radiation what's intolerable to the human body.

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    • wake up sheeple!NBQ00
    • It’s not a waste of time or resources to solve those issues though.monospaced
    • Still no closer to controlling gravity in any form, radiation is still fucking us up even on our planet and space travel is ultimately limited.Ianbolton
    • Gravity: we've simply never built a structure large enough to start rotating usefully, a la 2001. Radiation - water in polythylene bags should do for the tripNairn
    • Mars itself is a bit of a complex one - I can imagine we can 'solve' it, but it won't make for a very wonderful lifestyle for the first 500 years...Nairn
    • Good news is that mars has significant gravity and we can address many of the environmental factors once there.monospaced
    • Radiation is a bitch though and will likely keep us from long distance travel indefinitely.monospaced
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