Re:Elon Musk provides new details on his ‘mind blowing’ miss...
by Aelinsaar on Sunday June 12, 2016 @11:59AM
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I think the burden is on the person saying, "To mars, very soon!" to explain what they feel has changed, or changing, to allow that to be something other than a one-way, dead-end mission.
If you want optimism for the sake of optimism, Facebook has some lovely mother's groups.
Re:Elon Musk provides new details on his ‘mind blowing’ miss...
by JumpCrisscross on Sunday June 12, 2016 @07:45PM
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That's an arrogant perspective. What value are you adding that anything needs to be proved to you?
Not a problem in a shielded, climate-controlled shelter, e.g. one partly underground or in a cave.
> more radiation than you can reasonably survive on the way to Mars.
Putting food and water between space and interplanetary astronauts is a popularly-discussed option.
I think you may have been down-voted on your tone. This is an optimistic, bleeding-edge project. Unless you are an expert, it is more appropriate to ask why something isn't a problem than to prematurely declare it as unsolved or unsolvable.