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Toxic Mars Dust Could Pose Major Health Risks For Future Astronauts (www.sciencealert.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I don't want to sound flippant, but I feel like that's pretty far down the ol' crisis ladder right now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Have you been exposed to Mars dust!?!? You may be entitled to compensation!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

It might be our only way out. Send Musk and the Magats there. Toxic sand can only help.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If we were realistic about going to Mars, we'd start with serious plans to build an oceanic base on Earth first. Traveling to Mars is a small hurdle, in comparison to actually living there. We'd learn a lot if we built a self-sustaining base in the deep ocean.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Hasn't been a known fact for years that martian dirt is toxic as fuck?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Ah yes, the one and only obstacle to us colonizing mars.