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  • tate@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.worldHow can we get to Mars faster
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    19 days ago

    What a dumbass. If we send people in the quickest possible way (or any way at all, really) and they all die in the attempt, that will set the whole project back decades.

    The answer to the radiation problem is better shielding, not a fundamentally unsafe mission.

    btw it is not the nuclear propulsion that I’m calling unsafe. It is the idea that we could do without redundancy. That’s just a monumentally stupid idea.





  • The idea that something not practical is also not important is very sad to me. I think the least practical thing that humans do is by far the most important: trying to figure out what the fuck all this really means. We do it through art, religion, science, and… you guessed it, pure math. and I should include philosophy, I guess.

    I sure wouldn’t want to live in a world without those! Except maybe religion.