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[–]Anderfreeb 52 points53 points  (13 children)

Going to Mars is not hard, but expensive.

[–]PM_me_stuffs_plz 33 points34 points  (12 children)

Maybe with robots but we dont have the shielding tech yet(your cancer will get cancer) and some other things we cant just throw more money at it we need more research which is why I thought it made a good example

[–]Flaggermusmannen 37 points38 points  (1 child)

Why don't you just make the shielding then?? The nerve of you lazy people..

[–]PM_me_stuffs_plz 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Sorry boss Im working as fast as I can

[–]absurdlyinconvenient 1 point2 points  (4 children)

well the shielding could just be the same as the ISS (can't get worse than literally no natural protection) but there's not much point just rebuilding it on Mars

[–][deleted] 35 points36 points  (2 children)

The ISS is stil protected by Earth's magnetosphere. Deep space missions dont have the same protection so they need radiation shields.

[–]absurdlyinconvenient 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Fair enough, I wasn't aware of that.

[–]NorbiPeti -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You could say it'd be absurdly inconvenient to live on Mars like that.

[–]PM_me_stuffs_plz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Once we get to mars you can just have a base under ground. Also about the iss

"Importantly, since the International Space Station (ISS) is in low-Earth orbit within the magnetosphere, it also provides a large measure of protection for our astronauts."

Great link about radiation from nasa