US Set to Approve Private Moon Mission

Re:US Set to Approve Private Moon Mission by readams on Monday June 06, 2016 @01:19AM (#11844818)

I'm pretty sure a nearby gamma ray burst would sterilize the whole solar system.

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Re:US Set to Approve Private Moon Mission by danieltillett on Monday June 06, 2016 @04:10AM (#11845303)

I was under the impression that it is not the gamma rays that would get you but the destruction of the ozone layer [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_supernova

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Re:US Set to Approve Private Moon Mission by jessaustin on Monday June 06, 2016 @06:07AM (#11845623)

Mars doesn't have an ozone layer, so it's not clear that it would be more inhabitable than Earth with a degraded ozone layer. Even if we had to live underground for a while and lots of things died, we'd still be breathing oxygen and using tools that already exist here.

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