| Bofferbrauer2 said: .. making it a literal suicide mission. |
It is a suicide mission right from the start. We do not have the technology to shield a spaceship from cosmic background radiation.
By the time a spaceship reaches Mars, any moron inside it would have received about a 40% lethal dose of radiation. This means that once you are on Mars, you are really, really sick. Missing a magnetic field, cosmic radioation continues to slowly kill you (unless you dig into the ground really, really deep). If you plan a one-day mission to pick up some Mars dirt, by the time you return to Earth, you are dead.
Instead of this Mars nonsense, people with the money should take care of Earth, not Mars. Where are all those fancy robots companies are developing? That is the road to take, not kill morons on purpose.
