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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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...will of course propose that the communist Nanny State Utopia he loves so much provides each citizen with his/her own private magnetosphere.
How does he plan to finance this endeavor? The typical communist windbag solution is of course to place the financial yoke on the productive members of society.
Long live Sims, may his mouth never tire from sucking the dicks of Marx and Engels.
Sure, funnyman. Show me the calculations that show that a human being could survive exposure to radiation outside the van Allen belts.
The owls are not what they seem
if you want "No More Hiroshimas" then I say "You First. No More Pearl Harbors."
Unless, of course, they never made the trip.
The owls are not what they seem
I'm the Vice President of an engineering facility that does space stuff and I thought I'd take the time out of my busy schedule to explain the science behind this story.
Everyone knows about the Big Bang. When the Big Bang happened, all the planets were created and life began. These lifeforms then produced trash from their planets and dispelled it into space, much like we do with our garbage (where else do we keep it? under the 'ground'? *scoff*). This then causes all the showers of trash that we need to avoid when we go to Mars.
I believe the commonly held point of view in the scientific community is that most space trash is caused by life. For example, planets on the other side of the universe launch satellites which eventually turn up here and bombard our planet. But because they took so long to get here, they get dusty and are called meteors or comets. I think some scientists said once that Halley's Comet is a spaceship from the other side of the universe that is very dirty and some aliens wrote 'I wish my wife were as dirty as this' into the surface.
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not only are the mod's dumb, they appear to lack the ability to sense humor.
May I remind my gentle readers in the Slashdot community how insanely expensive any outer space adventure costs?
In this age of limits (obvious to all but US government bureaucrats and science fiction fans) that there is no practical return for the money expended putting humans into space.
This obsession with men on spending billions of public funds on space travel is a direct insult to the one out of ten women in the USA who are diagnosed with breast cancer (and the millions of women who die as a result). I recommend that the propeller-heads curb their enthusiasm for using public funds to implement science fiction fantasies until significant progress is made in defeating this disease that kills millions of women. Otherwise, you run the risk of reenforcing the public image amoung women that you are immature morons.
Nor would it be a waste of words to point out that other diseases such as AIDS and SARS and malaria and TB still deserve a greater share of public funds than space travel. While we on the subject, it might be a good idea to redirect some of the space budget for dealing with the inevitable return of pandemic influenza (such as happened in 1918 and 1957) and the possible introduction of weaponized SmallPox, for which we have little defense at the present.
Please confine your obsession with space travel to films and comic books.
Thank you,