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Serious question - how could people on Mars protect themselves from deadly solar and cosmic radiation? See body. (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. [...] I'm sure you have [a] sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever.

The article is tedious. The writer could make his points without whining, whingeing, and making bad jokes.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

So what you do is you take a nuke. Drop it in a hole. Then drop another one in. Then another one. Hope you brought a lot of nukes. Eventually the gas law (Pv=nrt baby) dictates that you end up with an atmosphere dense enough to be breathable plus you're definitely low enough down that you're shielded from radiation. Bring some looooong cables to connect to solar panels up on the surface, crank up the heater, hang up a grow lamp for your potatoes, and live large in the miles-deep, yards-wide prison you dug for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Welcome to Mars! barbara-pit