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How our immune systems could stop humans reaching Mars
The Telegraph ^ | 9/2/17 | Sarah Knapton

Posted on 09/02/2017 10:24:47 AM PDT by LibWhacker

The human immune system is so weakened by space travel that even a simple virus could prove deadly

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Yet although we now have the technological ability to leave Earth, scientists have found another stumbling block to colonising new worlds - our own immune system.

Although it is said we are all made of ‘star stuff’ when it comes to travelling away from our home planet humans are far more vulnerable to the rigours of space than our interstellar origins might suggest.

Billions of years of evolution has effectively backed mankind into a corner of the Solar System that it may be now be tricky to leave.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: immune; mars; space; system
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1 posted on 09/02/2017 10:24:47 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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Are they talking about the "snowflake" immune system or "real working people" immune system?
2 posted on 09/02/2017 10:30:30 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: LibWhacker

Make sure everyone has plenty of soil-based organisms. They build the immune system from the gut. Best brand I’ve found so far is Garden of Life Primal Defense.


3 posted on 09/02/2017 10:30:44 AM PDT by redhead (Pray for children in pedophile pipeline, destined for abuse, torture, and even sacrifice...)
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To: LibWhacker

Humans are optimized for life on Earth. Expecting the organism to work property off Earth is foolish. The body was not made for space. It was made for Earth.

Colonizing other planets is immoral, because the people-to-be-born are forced to live in a hostile environment, and they were not given the choice.


4 posted on 09/02/2017 10:33:05 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: LibWhacker

Grandma always said, ‘You’ll eat a bushel for dirt before you die!’

So, they’d better start eating Mars dirt as soon as they get there. ;)


5 posted on 09/02/2017 10:34:20 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: LibWhacker

Puny humans!

Do not attempt to travel to Mars!

You will catch a cold!

Or we will blast you out of space!

Whichever comes first.

The Martians


6 posted on 09/02/2017 10:35:14 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: LibWhacker

Space travel does not necessarily mean weightlessness. There is a simple way to create artificial gravity: spin the ship. If the ship is too small, connect two halves of it to a tether and spin that. Mars itself has about a third the gravity of Earth. The primary danger of living there is radiation.


7 posted on 09/02/2017 10:37:49 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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It’s not so much “being in space”, but prolonged weightlessness. For long periods in space, we’re going to need to simulate gravity via centrifuges.


8 posted on 09/02/2017 10:41:11 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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Space travel does not necessarily mean weightlessness. There is a simple way to create artificial gravity: spin the ship.


9 posted on 09/02/2017 10:43:25 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: LibWhacker

We will become a multi planet species. Don’t let the naysayers kid you.


10 posted on 09/02/2017 10:44:37 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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Heck, you can achieve much the same by living in (on?) Antarctica.

IIRC, Mars has a lot of chromium in its dust. That should kill off a lot of nasty critters.

OTOH, pieces of probes sent to the Moon still had revivable Earth bacteria on them after spending a few years on the lunar surface, baked by the Sun during the waxing and waning, and frozen the rest of the time, bombarded by the solar wind, etc.

11 posted on 09/02/2017 10:45:37 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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Or if we could create a sustained 1 g drive and shielding for protection, then the drive becomes the gravity- no rotation needed.


12 posted on 09/02/2017 10:47:03 AM PDT by rmichaelj (Ave Maria gratia plena, Dominus tecum.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Once we can develop extremely powerful and efficient power supplies like fusion or the much romanticized antimatter, ships could maintain 1 G acceleration/deceleration to use the propulsion system to give you gravity.


13 posted on 09/02/2017 10:50:46 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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To: LibWhacker

Really?

Travel to the Moon is Deep Space?

Besides, a large space vehicle set spinning will create a sensory gravity (acceleration) at the periphery.


14 posted on 09/02/2017 10:52:15 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: LibWhacker

Why Bother? What’s Mars got that we don’t have?


15 posted on 09/02/2017 10:52:42 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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16 posted on 09/02/2017 10:53:10 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: rmichaelj

Beat me to it


17 posted on 09/02/2017 10:53:35 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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To: LibWhacker

Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it’s cold as hell.


18 posted on 09/02/2017 10:56:27 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: EnglishOnly

It’s what mars doesn’t have. Antifa, Isis, Mecca.


19 posted on 09/02/2017 10:56:30 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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To: redhead

Hi How does one measure the effectiveness of such a product?


20 posted on 09/02/2017 10:57:01 AM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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