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Humans going to Mars should expect to never come back
by typon 6y ago
Humans going to Mars should expect to never come back
- andi999 6y agoBut at least they should reasonably expect to arrive.
- bostonsre 6y agoAnyone know what expectations Columbus or other expeditions had about survival/risk?
- tinco 6y agoA lot less than an astronaut has when going to Mars for sure. We at least know how far away Mars is exactly, and what obstacles lie in the way, and what inhabitants it has. They just got on a boat, and pray for fair wind and good weather so they might reach india, and thank god there was a whole other continent in between.
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- iso1631 6y agoFor a normal NASA flight "NASA told Business Insider it estimates there’s a 1-in-276 chance the flight could be fatal and a 1-in-60 chance that some problem would cause the mission to fail (but not kill the crew)" That's fairly low - feels like the age of sail would be far higher -- Columbus's second voyage alone had about 25 deaths just from scurvy. His first voyage was only about 90 crew. But remember that life wasn't exactly easy on land either.
- njarboe 6y agoThe Magellan Expedition left with 5 ships and ~270 men and returned with 1 ship and 18 men. People knew that going on long, overseas expeditions was very dangerous, but so was life in general in 1500. I imagine worrying about 50% increase in cancer risk by taking a voyage to fricking Mars, would seem very silly to those explorers.