Originally Posted by
Iwokeup thisway
I was completely ignorant of the toll extended space travel has on an astronaut’s body. Watching this last group exiting the spacecraft upon its return to earth as they were loaded onto their personal mobility devices - gurneys, shocked me. The loss of bone density, radiation exposure, and various skin rashes, in my opinion, warrants a bonus in their pay packet.
Exactly.
I'm a bit of a Musk fanboy, but when you do the slightest digging, the Mars stuff doesn't pan out.
The journey itself would be awful. The lower gravity plus DNA damage from the trip would probably mean you're DOA, or shortly thereafter. Progeny would be an absolute mess.
Makes more sense to colonize the bottom of the ocean. A million times easier.