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Mars is a profoundly stupid choice for human colonization. It's likely the low gravity will result in muscle loss and bone density problems, the soil is full o
by stackghost 2y ago
Mars is a profoundly stupid choice for human colonization. It's likely the low gravity will result in muscle loss and bone density problems, the soil is full of toxic chemicals, and there's no magnetosphere so the surface is constantly bombarded with high energy ionizing radiation.
Seems like Musk has been playing too much Terraforming Mars (which admittedly is a great board game).
- stavros 2y ago> It's likely the low gravity will result in muscle loss and bone density problems What are the problems? What's actually affected adversely, if you don't intend to return to earth?
- stackghost 2y agoI'm far from a human physiology expert; I just know that low gravity causes bone demineralization. There's no reason to suspect it's a nicely linear problem where your bones just conveniently scale down to Martian sized bones. We are exceedingly complex organisms.