Confirmed - Mars travel has huge radiation problem

this david packard chap at david packard dot com welcome back to the show welcome to everybody who's joining us from the we survived what he will survive obama face book page check that out we've talked a number of times on the show about mars travel to mars lewis's interest in being one of the first people to go on a one-way mission to mars so on and so forth and the nasa curiosity rover has now confirmed what a lot of people have basically suspected for a long time which is that the radiation of getting to mars and executing a mars mission would be outrageously high and that has now been concerned uh... aka the confirmed the robot counted the number of high-energy space particle striking it during the eight-month journey to the planet and based on that data scientists are saying that a human traveling to and from ours could well be exposed to radiation that preaches current safety limits for a life in other words just on the trip you would be exposed to more radiation and you should have in your entire life does that change your interest level in going to mars i mean that calculation doesn't even include the fact that on the surface that would be more right you just have to or you have to properly shield that the vessel for rap i mean i i assume if there isn't a way to do that now there will be at some point so they say the engineers will have to figure out how to ship it to have the proper shielding in the end whatever you go living areas there are including the ones on the trip there and once on mars but that they're there's probably a little they can be done to shelter the crew other than to get instant get them to mars faster and if you reduce the travel time from months two weeks you're significantly reducing that the radiation amount uh... yep i mean i think that that uh... that all makes sense but the reality is we've known about this since the nineteen seventies right we we in since the nineteen seventies there've been discussions of uh... how would you block radiation during interacted during during space travel seems we haven't solved it yet now over on on a boat ashore ones we did talk about uh... the waste from the astronauts on the trip basically being pumped in between the walls right too and that that writer is a good shield for but what we're talking about of course i don't know how practical that is a rift anything like that will ever be done i'm sure there are much better ways taking into consideration everything we know your interest level from one to ten ten being incredibly interested in being one of the first four people to go to mars on a one-way trip right now zero your interest in being one of the first hundred people to go to mars on a one-way trip and your of really so if you had the chance to be one of the first hundred not the first floor but in the first hundred you would take the one-way trip to mars if there are seventy five people there uh... and there's been a *** of uh... two people two to four people going every two to four years right i would assume that because there have been uh... stable and then your interest level would be that high interesting of course by then how old would i be well forget about the as it is conceptually speaker