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Human missions to Mars in doubt after astronaut kidney shrinkage revealed (www.yahoo.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

The tinsel strength required for a centrifuge ring is equal to the tensile strength required to build a suspension bridge of the same length. Obviously we do build suspension bridges all of the time so the materials already exist.

The problem is the size needed to not have a debilitating G-Force difference between the head and the feet.