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To: spacecowboynj

UV radiation risk:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/science/human/
http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01858/text-only/colonization.html


32 posted on 11/22/2006 8:35:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

My point exactly. You just do not just send a team to Mars on some Edgar Rice Burroughs dream that it's your God-given right to do so. These individuals are not just in orbit for two years, they're in interplanetary space. No shield from Earth, no nothing.

I'm sorry folks. I do not mean to play the cynic. I'm the first who would want them to get their as ducky as could be. :-)


33 posted on 11/22/2006 10:42:52 PM PST by spacecowboynj
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