Posted on 07/19/2004 11:02:41 AM PDT by KevinDavis
The U.S. goal of a human mission to Mars faces many hurdles, among them a shortage of space radiobiologists. It's a shortage NASA addressed in part with its first space radiation summer school, held last month at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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If I just give them my wallet ...would they take it to Mars and plant it someplace for me
1) How to get people to live together in ultra tight quarters for months and not kill each other.
2) How to keep fungus and bacteria from overrunning everything in the time provided.
3) If 1 and 2 cannot be solved, can 1 and or 2 be slowed down by suspended animation or by faster speeds?
The answers may change much on earth depending on the answers we get. How can we know unless we don't try?
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