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Astronauts' eyes weaken during long space missions, raising concerns for Mars travel (phys.org)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Keeping them alive should be a breeze, just create a self sustaining habitat and it will care for itself in a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_torus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hahah, just create an entirely new system architecture compared to what is currently being built. Easy! Set back human exploration timelines by decades...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is currently being built can't sustain a monkey population to mars anyway, so why not? If the monkey trials are a priority, we need to give them suitable living conditions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm arguing that monkey trials are not a priority and that we should go straight to people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

So go from monkeys to apes?