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Re:SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video] by krastanov on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:31AM (#15363213)
He has stated a couple of times that the radiation will be there and it will have the same lifetime cancer risk increase as smoking. It seems the plan is to just live with the increased cancer risk.
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Re:SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video] by grondilu on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:19AM (#15363401)
Zubrin once joked that if you send a heavy smoker to mars without any cigarette, you actually reduce his risk of dying of cancer.
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