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 ...
My sentiments exactly. We’ve always known there are problems associated with space travel. That doesn’t mean there are no solutions to them nor that we will not find those solutions.
Who gave us global warming? Anti-American socialists who want to throw a wrench in the works and disable the American economy. Notice a lot of this crap is coming out of Moscow. And now they’ve cast their jaundiced eye on space travel, no doubt to stop us before we ever try. To hell with them.
A new world, fresh start, room to grow.
The rings would simulate Earth's gravity by rotating to produce centrifugal force. With the effects of gravity working, the problems of weightlessness would be overcome. Operational crews would rotate shifts from the living quarters to the inner operational structure to prevent too much time in weightlessness.
I like the fact that I almst never catch anything that is going around. The SBO’s don’t just prevent illness. The gut and the bacteria it contains are a major organ of the body, and is essential for ongoing general good health. I don’t know if there is any way to precisely quantify the effectiveness of the system, though. I usually read Dr. Mercola’s webpages for information, because he is continually studying, himself. I recommend it for the information it contains.
Won’t matter when warp drive is perfected!
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A lot of good reviews. I’ll give it a go.
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>> “ than our interstellar origins might suggest.” <<
What part of planet Earth is “interstellar?”
SciFi crapola!
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Or better yet, stop wasting huge amounts of money trying to launch fragile human beings into space and instead launch thousands of increasingly advanced probes throughout our solar system to gather much more information in much less time with much less money.
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Trust me! There will never be any colonization of any other planet.
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Just keep Uranus out of the equation.
All of it.
As viewed by anyone else anywhere else out in rest of the universe.
Trust me, man will never cross the ocean; never build a horseless carriage; never fly; never travel underwater; never get out of the atmosphere; never go to the moon; never, never, never...
Naysayers never; men constantly accomplish the impossible. That’s not hubris—it’s following God-given ability and inclination.
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Great, but there are no other observers in our mortal bucket.
Nice philosophical gesture though.
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Sloganizing, and nothing more.
Man has never accomplished the impossible, but he often increases his tool kit to make the barely possible easier.
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That's probably true, but what about its non-breathable atmosphere? I guess that's why sci-fi writers usually put its earthling inhabitants under domed cities.
That's probably true, but what about its non-breathable atmosphere? I guess that's why sci-fi writers usually put its earthling inhabitants under domed cities.
I know quite a bit about space medicine but I never knew anything about the weakened immune systems nor that going to the moon ruined the health of the men who went there.
Nope, humans weren’t made for space. Nor were they made for arctic tundra or vast deserts or highland steppes or any of dozens of other climates or biomes that humans currently occupy. Humans adapt.
This country was built by people who dragged and made children from the wild New England coast to the rugged Appalachian mountains through the wild plains to the Rockies and the west coast. All along the way were struggles and dangers, hard work, starvation and disease. Was that immoral? If it was then where would this country have come from if they hadn’t done that?
I am not saying we necessarily will colonize other worlds. The technical difficulties may be insurmountable especially as our civilization seems to be in an existential crisis and on the verge of collapse. But if we can get out there are so no reason not to just because it will be difficult, dangerous and hostile.
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