“Good chance you’ll die” Incorrect, it is 100%
1. Interplanetary trip with little shielding for solar and interstellar radiation.
2. You have to grow your food on a planet with normal sub zero surface temperatures and little atmosphere, no known water, but abundant CO2 at incredibly low partial pressures.
3. You are on a planet with a no magnetic shield via a molten revolving iron core like on earth and thus subject to all sun and galactic radiation.
You will die.
Man will probably walk on Mars one day. Man will never live on Mars. It will be a brief excursion and landing and return. The cost will be insane. Much more scientific knowledge of this planet can be obtained via robotic missions at a fraction of the cost. The same can be said for the moon.
“You will die.”
But we’ll all die in 11.267 years on earth anyway, so what do we have to lose? It’s 4.359 years if Trump’s re-elected.
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