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The real takeaway is that he was up there far longer than needed to get to Mars, and he’s fine. The first travelers to Mars will just tough it out. Eventually w
by valuearb 9y ago
The real takeaway is that he was up there far longer than needed to get to Mars, and he’s fine. The first travelers to Mars will just tough it out. Eventually we will likely have spinning Aldrin Cyclers providing artificial gravity and strong radiation shielding, but don’t need them for our first trips.
Magellan didn’t have a cure for scurvy, safe ships, or maps, but he still agrred to lead an expedition that cost him and 80% of his crewmen their lives but opened the world for exploration. If those explorations had waited until ship and medical technologies advanced to provided modern day levels of safety, westerners only now would be reaching the Philippines.
- geezerjay 9y agoI agree. Yet, the first stage of problem solving is identifying the problem. Thanks to Scott Kelly, some problems were identified, and now it's possible to test possible solutions. If Magellan knew about the problems posed by scurvy a couple of years before he set sail I'm sure he would've preferred to figure out some ways to avoid that problem instead of risking losing 80% of his crew.