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Disease May Prevent Manned Journey To Mars
Pickens writes "Science Daily News reports that human missions to Mars and all other long-term space flights might be compromised by disease, first because space travel appears to weaken astronauts' immune systems; and second, because it increases the virulence and growth of microbes. 'When people think of space travel, often the vast distances are what come to mind first,' says Jean-Pol Frippiat from Nancy-University in France, 'but even after we figure out a way to cover these distances in a reasonable amount of time, we still need to figure out how astronauts are going to overcome disease and sickness.' Frippiat says studies show that immune systems of both people and animals in space flight conditions are significantly weaker than their grounded counterparts and that common pathogens such as Salmonella, E. coli and Staphylococcus reproduce more rapidly in space flight conditions, leading to increased risk of contamination, colonization and serious infection."
They don't exactly grow their food in space. So fresh food is rare. And no. Neither heated, nor frozen food suffices in the long term. Let alone the total trash that is what we call "normal food". Meaning everything that's processed ...and processed again, ...until it's more a chemo-cocktail, with tons of wrecked proteins, destroyed molecules, and all vital substances out of balance, than species-appropriate food.
Sorry, but as long as you keep that mentality, and shoot "normal" "food" (according to the average joe or the food chemist) into space, people will, just as on sailing ships, become sick of many various things. Just like we do down here. But much quicker. We call them "age-related" diseases, because we think they come because of age. When in reality, they come *with* age. Because of decades of eating trash.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Could this be the reason that the Apollo program was filmed in an abandoned aircraft hanger in Arizona?
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