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To: BenLurkin

Weightlessness is a minor problem.

This is the major problem:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/mars-bound-astronauts-face-brain-damage-from-galactic-cosmic-ray-exposure-says-nasa-funded-study


6 posted on 11/26/2016 8:34:40 AM PST by samtheman (Voted Trump)
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To: samtheman

Which is precisely what forgotten Project Orion (canceled 1964) would have protected against with a double hull filled with water.


14 posted on 11/26/2016 8:46:11 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: samtheman

Yup. Radiation. Even around certain planets. Jupiter comes to mind.


41 posted on 11/26/2016 11:37:10 AM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: samtheman

Um, probably not.

The nervous system isrelatively speaking, insensitive to rad exposures.

IF you had enough exposure to affect the Central Nervous System to the point of brain damage, the much more sensitive organs of your body would be busy dying first.

This is nothing but fear-propoganda.


52 posted on 11/26/2016 1:06:21 PM PST by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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