Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ...
by IndianAstronaut on Saturday October 22, 2016 @06:41AM
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Going outside routinely is dangerous on Mars. It takes a penny sized hole in your suit and you're dead.
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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ...
by ceejayoz on Saturday October 22, 2016 @09:05AM
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I doubt that's the case. Suits will be tough, and undoubtedly come with patch kits, and folks will use the buddy system.
A penny-sized hole would give time to patch, and suits would likely be designed to compartmentalize in a leak. In a true worst-case scenario, chimp studies in the 1970s showed they could survive several minutes of total vacuum.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/survival-in-space...
Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ...
by M_Grey on Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:09PM
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How long a human would survive is one thing. How much medical care they'd need is another. They'd be on Mars, not Earth, and I imagine being a quadruple amputee on Mars would effectively be a death sentence.