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Expert: Mars Astronauts Would Lose Teeth

Posted by Hemos on from the i'll-gum-ya-to-death dept.

Ant wrote to us with a story on Discovery about the long term consequences of manned and "womanned" missions to Mars - lots of research about bone-weakening effects of zero G environments, with tooth loss high on the list.

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  1. All I want for christmas is my two front teeth by xted · · Score: 5, Funny

    I say we get all the astronauts to smile for a group picture when they land on mars.

    1. Re:All I want for christmas is my two front teeth by SEWilco · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, I think that if the astronauts lose all their teeth then they would just suck.

  2. Get people from the Backwoods of Arkansas... by BiggestPOS · · Score: 2, Funny
    They are already toothless :)

    (just joking, its a fine state, I lived through High School there)

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  3. ummm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    last i checked, mars had gravity... then again, I haven't been there in a while...


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  4. Send John Glenn by Swaffs · · Score: 5, Funny

    He probably doesn't have any teeth left anyway.

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  5. Re:That's not an insurmountable obstacle by number+one+duck · · Score: 4, Funny

    But how are you going to open bottles and tighten bolts on your way home? Teeth are much more mass/fuel effecient than spanners will ever be...

    Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was a Russian mission at first. Teaches me to not read the article...

  6. Re:shoot for the moon by drsoran · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also Mars has that giant alien machine underground that heats up the frozen ice core and releases oxygen into the environment within a matter of minutes to create an instant earth-like atmosphere. Does the moon? No way. So we got that going for us.

  7. Re:astronauts don't need teeth anyway... by dR.fuZZo · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what about when they get back to Earth?

    You mean they're supposed to come back?

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