Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoHow close are we to human hibernation? Takes roughly 3 years to get to mars and thought more planets would need us to stay in a state of hibernation kind of like a pod or something?message-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down13
arrow-up132arrow-down1message-squareHow close are we to human hibernation? Takes roughly 3 years to get to mars and thought more planets would need us to stay in a state of hibernation kind of like a pod or something?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squaretenchiken@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 days agoThe major problem that needs solved before that even… Cancer. Radiation once you leave our magnetic fields is going to be lethal working just a few months… Seeing as how Mars doesn’t have any, the only shielding is what they bring… Check out some of the data NASA has collected https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20110006343/downloads/20110006343.pdf
The major problem that needs solved before that even… Cancer.
Radiation once you leave our magnetic fields is going to be lethal working just a few months… Seeing as how Mars doesn’t have any, the only shielding is what they bring…
Check out some of the data NASA has collected
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20110006343/downloads/20110006343.pdf