Astronomy / Space Space. The final *cough cough*… is that blood?

[Shadowdancer]

Going to space appears to be quite the health issue: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/28/space_weakens_immune_system/

So not only do you get more receptive to every bout of the sniffles floating around, you're also more likely to get cancer, and by the time you arrive at Mars you're quite the nebish.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

So, looks like long trip astronauts need to build up a tollerance to space with shorter duration stays, this will help their immune system on longer flights, and long distance spaceships would need some sort of artificial magnetic field around the ship or equivalent to protect against radiation like the earth protects us.

 

[metatheurgist]

One of the problems of Mars is it doesn't have a magnetic field either. So you'll stay a nebish.

 

[Shadowdancer]

One of the problems of Mars is it doesn't have a magnetic field either. So you'll stay a nebish.

You'd have a lot of dirt to hide beneath once you're there, so unless that's radioactive too you should be fine on the radiation front.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

You'd have a lot of dirt to hide beneath once you're there, so unless that's radioactive too you should be fine on the radiation front.

Of course, the aliens live underground as well....

 

[Darkfyre99]

You'd have a lot of dirt to hide beneath once you're there, so unless that's radioactive too you should be fine on the radiation front.

We also don’t know what is the minimum gravity required to avoid or minimize the effects caused by free fall.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Of course, the aliens live underground as well....

We will crush them, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentations of their wiz'nek!

 

[Zak Gordon]

If we do a manned moonbase before a Mars trip, i hope one of the things we will see is a proper G-force chamber (there was a thread around here somewhere where a few types (like the module for the ISS, and a potential rotating cylinder on a Mars bound ship etc) were looked at) and a perfection of that type of technology, as it should be quite clear that as biological organisms evolved on planet earth, we will need a simulation of that 'environment' where ever we go off planet.

As long as we build under ground (or under enough radiation proofing) and take care of the radiation issues in space flight, we should be able to do the Moon and Mars if we put our collective minds to it imho.

 

[metatheurgist]

You'd have a lot of dirt to hide beneath once you're there, so unless that's radioactive too you should be fine on the radiation front.

Morlocks confirmed!

 

[Patrick_68000]

It's good to live on our good old earth, finally.