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Getting to Mars will be easy. Living there is what we haven't figured out
- pavel_lishin 2y agoTLDR: dealing with radiation on a planet without a thick atmosphere or a magnetosphere is hard. (But the article also points out that getting to Mars is also quite difficult. The headline is pretty bad.)
- taylodl 2y agoThey don't even get into the actual danger unique to Mars: perchlorate. Martian soil (and dust) is toxic to humans. That seems to be a rather large problem to overlook.