Yeah but they'd look cool
Posted on 05/30/2022 9:08:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Surviving in microgravity
One of the biggest challenges for human colonisers will be staying fit and healthy on Mars.
Studies have shown that transitioning from one gravity field to another can affect spatial orientation, head-eye and hand-eye coordination, balance and locomotion.
Astronauts also experience changes to bone and muscle in space.
‘Moreover, the fluids in the body shift upward to the head in microgravity, which may put pressure on the eyes and cause vision problems,’ NASA added.
‘If preventive or countermeasures are not implemented, crews may experience an increased risk of developing kidney stones due to dehydration and increased excretion of calcium from their bones.’
NASA is looking at several ways to keep astronauts healthy during missions to Mars, including artificial gravity devices and vibration platforms to help regenerate bones and muscles.
Becoming a cyborg could be beneficial in helping to counter the effects of microgravity on the human body.
For example, humans could be fitted with iron lungs or steel plates under the skin to protect our tender organs and make us more resilient against the effects of microgravity.
Adapting to the Martian climate
Because Mars is further from the sun, temperatures there are much colder than on Earth.
On the Red Planet, temperatures can drop as low as -200°F (-128°C). For comparison, the lowest temperature on Earth is -128.6°F (-88°C).
Thankfully, NASA’s next-generation spacesuits, which it unveiled in 2019, are designed to withstand extreme temperatures, and should help to keep settlers warm.
‘The suit is built to withstand temperature extremes of -250°F [-156°C] in the shade and up to 250°F [121°C] in the sun,’ NASA said.
Cyborgs could have similar technology implanted in their bodies, or in the form of an exoskeleton – although NASA’s spacesuits will offer a good alternative for those hoping to stay fully human!
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War of the Worlds II - This time, they’re vaxxed!
Read a scifi book where they genetically modified scientists to be able to live, breathe and see on Jupiter.
Only the modified scientists would get to Jupiter, and they would see how beautiful it was, and they all abandoned the mission to go explore.
No cyborgs on Mars. I don’t think Elon likes Mark Zuckerberg.
If they look like Seven of Nine, I don’t care!
The Mars idea is suicide.
Other than keeping industries such as NASA afloat and supported with high dollar contracts. I don’t see any reason Man needs to even contemplate going to Mars.
Read that article again. Would you want to live that way?
Missing in the Mission Statement was a very important 3 letter word called ‘fun’. Survival on Mars promises to be a really hard slog. Not seeing a lot of perks.
We’ve already put robots on Mars. Putting cyborgs there would not be a triumph for the human race. It would be a triumph for the freakazoid transhumanists.
yes this is all very possible
but they have no souls given by God
Why worry? They will just evolve new organs to adjust to different climate and physical conditions. Take, oh, 3 billion years give or take 500 million years. Of course the process could be speeded up by cosmic rays increasing the beneficial mutation rate.
https://ca01001129.schoolwires.net/cms/lib/CA01001129/Centricity/Domain/270/Desertion.pdf
Regards,
Agree. It’s suicide from a health perspective, and a fantasy from a scientific standpoint. A blackhole of waste sucking up huge amounts of time, money, and energy. SNAFU
“Thankfully, NASA’s next-generation spacesuits, which it unveiled in 2019, are designed to withstand extreme temperatures, and should help to keep settlers warm.”
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Thankfully?
Oh, gee, I’m so thankful to have a new kind of spacesuit. I’m scheduled to go to Mars and was not looking forward to using the same old spacesuit that can only keep me warm in -100 degree environments. So big ups and a shoutout to my timely and inventive space tailor.
I don’t see cyborgs being viable, ever. Amputate and arm, say, and any number of bad things can happen in the brain. The brain is used to thousands of moment-by-moment inputs from the nerves. Failing to get those can create what is called “ghost” pains. Now, multiply that by every possible modification.
I was once housed in a hospital room with a man who had a massive stroke. He spent every waking moment trying to masturbate. The doctor told me, “He’s dead. There is so much of his brain gone that he’s trying desperately just feel something. Anything.” It’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen.
Even given that our technology would need to be hundreds of times more advanced to create a cyborg, it would never achieve what God had done.
Yeah but they'd look cool
Why FR has become the new National Enquirer.
Go up SpaceX’s Starship-catching robotic launch tower with Elon Musk!
32:58 May 26, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5k3ZzPf_0
If I remember my basic science, isn’t Jupiter a gas giant? I took that to mean there’s no solid surface?
Maybe one of it’s moons?
“They found Jupiter’s core is an Earth-like rock that’s 14 to 18 times the mass of Earth, or about 5 percent of Jupiter’s total mass. Previous studies suggested the core was only seven Earth masses or that Jupiter had no core at all.”
It was some pretty serious genetic modifications. I think they ended up looking something like dinosaurs. Extremely strong legs.
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