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Human missions to Mars in doubt after astronaut kidney shrinkage revealed
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Honest question: other than saying we stepped foot there, what reason is there to actually send people? The amount of resources and equipment and machinery required just to keep someone alive could all be eliminated by sending robots, who can perform all the same tasks without needing to be kept alive. All that oxygen and equipment and life support systems can be replaced by actual testing instruments and specialized robots that can use them. I just don't see the point. The universe will be explored by robots IMO.

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So we're gonna leave a burning earth for a cold lifeless mars with no oxygen? Would be easier at stay here and fix shit.

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Why? What's it for?

You mean…we weren’t supposed to travel to other planets??? Gasp. AND WORSE YET we have to take care of this one lest it kill us? WOAH. 🙄

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The difference isn't that slight when it's a small circle. I mean, in the most extreme examples, if the radius was only human height, then your head would be weightless.

It also has to be pretty big (and therefore fast) for issues of spinward vs. antispinward to disappear.

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We don't even need planets. As Isaac Arthur puts it, humans didn't leave the caves to look for new caves, we started building our own caves. Humans in space will build rotating habitats and live the way they choose.

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