03-25-2019, 07:47 AM
stanc Wrote:LOL. Martian colonies will probably be far more restrictive than what you are likely to ever face on Earth. And since the colonists would have to live and work in pressurized habitats, it seems rather unlikely they'd be allowed to have guns.
Gotta crush my dreams of escape. Darn. Guess I better join in on the fun....
The amount of radiation shielding needed to protect humans from the levels of cosmic radiation on the journey would require a lot of energy to get the craft into space. Those funding the venture would be sending human guinea pigs so they'd probably nix the shielding to save $. Mars does not have a magnetosphere like Earth and the atmosphere is far less = bombarded with a lot of cosmic radiation and solar flares could be lethal.
Maybe they would send guns if they at least had half a heart, so people could humanely do themselves in, instead of suffering an agonizing death from early cancer and other mutated/ damaged DNA effects.
