His face does resemble some of the old Mars sketchings of Giovanni Schiaparelli. Giovanni believed he saw lines all over the surface of Mars. He called the lines, "canali". In English, channels. Or was it cannoli that he saw?
Posted on 05/21/2019 6:06:35 PM PDT by ETL
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THE FIRST humans on Mars will quickly become too fragile to have sex with.
That's according to one scientist, who reckons colonists will warp into super-mutants who'll keel over the moment they bonk an Earthling.
Nasa is keen to land humans on Mars in the 2030s with an eye on setting up a permanent Martian colony.
Settlers will have to survive suffocating temperatures and deadly radiation – an experience that may strip them of their humanity altogether, says Rice University professor Scott Solomon.
He told Inverse that colonists' DNA will rapidly mutate to help them ride out Mars's brutal conditions.
Over time, they'll develop cancer-proof skin to survive the extra solar radiation, and denser bones to cope with Mars's low-gravity conditions.
On top of this, inhabitants will be exposed to almost none of the bacteria and viruses found on Earth, effectively nullifying their immune systems.
According to Professor Solomon, who is an evolutionary biologist at Rice, it will only take Mars colonists two generations to become super-mutants.
"Evolution is faster or slower depending on how much of an advantage there is to having a certain mutation," Professor Solomon says.
"If a mutation pops up for people living on Mars, and it gives them a 50-percent survival advantage, that’s a huge advantage, right?
And that means that those individuals are going to be passing those genes on at a much higher rate than they otherwise would have."
He added that contact with humans may become deadly for Martians.
With no immune system, they'll quickly succumb to any illnesses or diseases carried by their human lovers.
These are all issues that Nasa will have to consider as it prepares to land man on the Moon by 2024, before heading to Mars in 2033.
The space agency is already pumping cash into research on the long-term effects of space travel.
One study in Germany has seen participants handed £14,000 to sit in bed and watch telly for two months.
Scientists are testing how prolonged periods of low-gravity during long-distance spaceflight affects the human body.
I just flash ‘em with style.
Makes more sense than the GlobalClimateWarmingChange nonsense.
Evidence of idiocy.
Keep in mind that they'd likely receive much higher doses of cosmic rays during their time there. Cosmic rays are known to cause genetic mutations here on earth. It's the mechanism that drives evolution, so they say. In other words, the increased CR intensity may speed the evolutionary process up significantly.
It sure is. Why haven't we developed cancer-proof skin here on Earth?
“Dark They Were and Golden Eyed”: Ray Bradbury’s best ever short story- must have read it 40 years ago and it stayed with me- very evocative and almost terse in it’s writing- every word and sentence moves that story forward.
If NASA accepts my application to go to mars, I expect to do ‘IT’ a whole lot to stay in shape, procreate, and conquer Mars.
It’s a lot like conquering the U.S. if you think about it.
His face does resemble some of the old Mars sketchings of Giovanni Schiaparelli. Giovanni believed he saw lines all over the surface of Mars. He called the lines, "canali". In English, channels. Or was it cannoli that he saw?
There is little-to-no magnetic field on Mars. Only about 27 humans have ever ventured outside of Earth’s protection and not for extended periods...factors conveniently-omitted from a Sun article. Fitting.
A manned mission to Mars is lunacy, an abominable waste of resources until we can achieve space travel absent chemical propellants and provide similar protection to space travelers we enjoy here on Earth.
The Moon is an excellent neighborhood space laboratory; Mars is a fool’s errand.
But, didn’t you see “Waterworld”?
You are the only person on earth than me thst remembers the dr. Science r as dio showhosted by a guy with amasters degree in science
I’m aware that a mission to Mars, at least in the next 50 years or so, would be a suicide one. They’d have to deal with cosmic rays, solar flares, CMEs, micro-meteorites, etc.
Then why post a cartoon absent a lampoon tag?
The best thing about women on Mars will be, no fat chicks.
What “cartoon” are you referring to?
>> DNA will rapidly mutate
Wouldn’t that require procreation?
Poetry in motion....
That was longer ago than I realized: the late 1980s. Thirty years have passed since the Duck’s Breath Mystery Theater was on NPR, almost the same amount of time since I listened to anything on that network.
How is this idiot a professor?
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