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... and because of these first 2 facts will probably have living quarters underground. Which is a good way to avoid cosmic rays.
by greglindahl 9y ago
... and because of these first 2 facts will probably have living quarters underground. Which is a good way to avoid cosmic rays.
- Scarblac 9y agoThen it seems slightly easier to just have some people living underground here on earth.
- gambiting 9y agoYou know what's even better than dirt at stopping radiation? Water. And we have lots of it. 10km of water at the bottom of the Mariana trench should stop any amount of radiation that could hit Earth.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoOn the other hand, we can live underground, but we can't live underwater.
- gambiting 9y agoBoth require living in some sort of pressurized container, unless you assume we could live in underground caves(but those can't be very deep so probably not good enough). Obviously the underwater one would require more engineering, but probably still less than one needed for Mars.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoThat depends on your perspective. We have the technology to go to Mars right now; we do not have the technology to go to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. It is a much more hostile environment than Mars is. However, if you assumed that we were able to go the bottom of the ocean, transporting supplies there would be much easier than transporting supplies to Mars.
- jylam 9y agowe do not have the technology to go to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Except we reached it four times since 1960 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench#Descents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench#Descents