A Mars Mission's Greatest Challenge: Radiation

daSeiz writes "A New York Times article explores the possible effects of prolonged radiation exposure in deep space. Surprisingly, very little is known about the subject. We'll need to find innovative new ways of shielding spacecraft from fraction-of-lightspeed interstellar rubbish if we're ever to spend much time outside our own magnetosphere."

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Re:Comparing Price

[strictnein]

I'm a pretty right wing, Iraq war supporting guy, so don't get this the wrong way, but that stat is most likely horribly wrong, I mean, did you look at how it was created?

Gallop asked 1178 Baghdad residents in August and September whether a member of their household had been executed by Saddam's regime. According to Gallup, 6.6 per cent said yes.

The polling firm took metropolitan Baghdad's population - 6.39 million - and average household size - 6.9 people - to calculate that 61,000 people were executed during Saddam's rule.

I mean, come on now. If you can't see at least one or two thing wrong with that survey, you just aren't looking hard enough. I'm sure it was a lot of people who truly were executed, but you shouldn't use stats from that survey.