Re: Is it this easy to live on Mars?

This is not a reasonable question, in fact, haha, its not even a
rational response to the conversation we were having. Just goes to
show, pearls before swine and all of that.

Yet there is an implied observation about radiation levels - that
needs to be addressed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Radiation_Environment_Experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars#Radiation


We know what the radiation levels at mars are. At mars surface,
they're 8 millirads per day - unsheilded.

You also seem totally unaware of the impact of radiation hormesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis

No for someone who speaks out loudly against all of science as
politically motivated bull*** when it doesn't support your pet
theories - haha - I find it interesting that you adopt uncritically
the linear-no-threshold model of radiation exposure - which has no
scientific basis. It stems entirely from the thesis that medicine
should do no harm, and zero exposure means zero harm - without knowing
the precise mechanism of harm at very low exposure levels - and it was
created by the FRENCH medical community! lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model

Its adherents loudly proclaim their fear that any notion that low
level of radiation is not harmful, that would send the wrong political
signal to nuclear power plant operators, and nuclear war strategists
throughout the world. Something they oppose on political grounds.

Despite the throttling of open data, radiation hormesis has been shown
to occur in animals and plants exposed to low level doses of radiation
for long periods of time. We cannot obviously do experiments on
humans - however, there is no real reason to believe that radiation
hormesis would not occur in human populations who engage in space
travel. (or survive a limited nuclear war) - no public studies were
done on survivors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima to look for this effect in
humans.

The development of nanotechnology and its application to medicine will
likely identify the cellular mechanisms that cause radiation hormesis
and assure that such changes are adopted by anyone travelling space.
This will likely be as simple as taking a pill.

Such technology will likely be developed in the wake of a limited
nuclear war to increase survival rates, not only of humans, but crops
and farm animals and pets and be broadly available for any space
faring populations after such an event.

In the absence of such a war, this technology to induce radiation
hormesis will likely be developed as part of the medical practice that
develops along with space travel.

It may be an interesting headline some day on Mars Today(ala total
recall) - a nuclear war breaks out on Earth, and radiation drugs are
rushed to Earth to save people and farms from the rising radiation
levels.



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