Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star

Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by Pigo on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:31PM (#14982020)

I'm left wondering these same kind of issues every time there's a Mars habitation post. Having a third the gravity, microscopic dust, and a complete lack of nature (or Internet) seems to be trivial to some people.

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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by ceejayoz on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:23PM (#14983174)

> Having a third the gravity

Sounds fun!

> microscopic dust

Found on earth! I change my HVAC filters regularly.

> and a complete lack of nature

There's plenty of nature on Mars. Not much life, but we'll bring that with us. I'd suspect early colonists will have more plant life in their quarters and living areas than your average NYC resident.

> or Internet

I'd fully expect a solution along the lines of Netflix's edge caches for this by the time we're seriously considering building a base. Daily snapshots of Reddit, StackOverflow, major news sites, etc.

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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by Pigo on Monday August 14, 2017 @09:05AM (#15008295)

You think existing in a third the gravity, most likely for the rest of your life, wouldn't effect your body in untold ways?

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Re:Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest su... by throwanem on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:33PM (#14982037)

Also: no magnetosphere, so none of the same barrier to most cosmic radiation behind which we've evolved.

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