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She's the type of person you want to send to Mars.
by jdmtheNth 3y ago
She's the type of person you want to send to Mars.
- rurban 3y agoMars will be much harder. No chance to survive, hard radiation, rescue would need at least a year.
- kzrdude 3y agoMars has sunlight and a more inspiring mission
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoSo does Antarctica. She'd die there alone as well.
- qup 3y agoShe'd die in this cave alone! She can still be the kind of person you want to send to Mars.
- rurban 3y agoTrue. When I look at their current training env in Houston, it looks much better than a dark cave, alone. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/12/nasa-texas-humans-prepare-mars https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/12/nasa-texas-h...
- mensetmanusman 3y agoWater shields can mitigate the radiation damage.
- elihu 3y agoRadiation on Mars can be resolved in the same way, by living in a cave. I expect the first permanent settlements on Mars will either be in sealed sections of lava tubes or in underground artificial structures.
- Teever 3y agoI used to be irate when I would read these kinds of off the cuff comments about mars missions / colonization but I've come to realize that in 20 years I'll be able to look back and read these with amusement as I watch live streams of people on Mars doing crazy shit.
- shjake 3y agoI wonder what did the people living in the 60s think is going happen 20 years…
- Teever 3y agoI know that Von Braun expected humans to set foot on Mars by the late 1970s. If Von Braun thought that was possible it certainly was, if not for the pivot in budget that occured under Nixon. For better or worse we're seeing a resurgence in privately funded space exploration which may be the key to making it happen this time.
- Towaway69 3y agoPrivate companies are even worse in following long term goals especially if those goals become unprofitable. Private companies can also go bust or be bought up by competitors only to be shutdown.
- Teever 3y agoI agree with these points but I can see no evidence that they apply to SpaceX.
- Towaway69 3y agoWhen banks fail do they broadcast the fact beforehand? It's always a "shock" when a company fails. Just recently Virgin space (or whatever it was called) closed its doors. There wasn't a public debate beforehand, it was just announced. Sure insiders knew about it but not the broader public. I'm not implying that spaceX is going shut its doors but it even less incentive to be transparent than a governmental organisation.