“Oh, you are asking me about an actual problem with my unrealistic plans to colonize Mars? I have no idea, but I must say we plan to colonize Mars soon in order to get money from the stupid investors, lmao”
musk is a good billionaire… FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!1!
I’ve read some sci-fi stories where they use a thick layer of water to attenuate solar radiation. But I don’t think it’s anywhere near a solved problem. Musk is a twit.
What was the one where the whole crew had to hide from a radiation storm behind the water tanks?
Its solved in so far as adding a large mass to the exterior of the ship can dramatically reduce the hazards of deep space travel. But its still a problem in the sense that getting large amounts of material into space is horribly expensive and difficult.
There was some proposal by the Chinese to build a kilometer long spacecraft, for instance. And if you’re willing to invest that much material into a spacecraft, that opens up your options quite a bit.
Maybe some clever ways to reduce radiation effects; maybe some dumb as fuck ones! Maybe we just throw workers out there with nothing and say good luck! Maybe we find clever ways to ENHANCE radiation effects! And we get super soldiers! Tesla Troops! It’s a whole new world of possibilities!
I suspect that we’re simply going to do the math and conclude “Humans can survive on Mars for 5-10 years before the radiation gets them, and we can send up new workers every 2-3 years, so as long as the rockets keep firing everything will be fine”. And then the mass graves of Mars will form the foundation of every building on the planet within a generation.
It’s stylistically designed to be that way, and we can’t undo that, but we can diminish the effects of it
