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[–] GelatinGeorge@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The reason you're not ever living on Mars is that it has no magnetosphere. Good fucking luck surviving any length of time with constant ionising radiation slapping the shit out of your DNA. This fact alone should have shut down any discussion of feasibility about colonising Mars.

Although it does make the three-titted chick from Total Recall way more realistic.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Even without that issue (maybe they spend all their time in a cave?), we don't even know if a human fetus can develop healthily in a gravity lower than Earth's.

[–] GelatinGeorge@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Very true. There's also the issue of giving birth. Women would have to be spun around like salad in a spinner in order to simulate Earth gravity but I imagine that's a perk for Elon.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I don't think that's an issue, water births are a thing and buoyancy results in much less gravity being felt than they would on Mars.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

There is a disgusting cartoon about this somewhere

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

So I guess we just need to build the Sides. Then, 79 years later, giant robots.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Space X is just Ultor from Red Faction.

[–] Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago

Chances are any colonies will be built underground or in lava tubes to shelter from radiation.