Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 21:23:52 -0500 Message-ID: <57EF1E4C.2CA6@ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 19:24:12 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: 1st Mars Colonists Should Be 'Prepared to Die,' Elon Musk Says References: <57EEEA3E.5698@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-bkNW8B2mtIiqxikTBoJ9CXf0MH4slafS6/ABp1IVlvBqWbMUekfuznN1FO4MEUkfjfdhpTJTIZICfQ7!YP6vMEUYaRyYMfO1pVK8NSxrQ1qbVvPHMa28l7wevpn3IBF24nrYt41AgoBl1EIVqp1/eODycn/E!V6kbiLk6YrA= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1750 X-Received-Bytes: 1872 X-Received-Body-CRC: 402861165 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:452512 sci.physics:599015 sci.physics.relativity:394455 alt.astronomy:286419 Serigo wrote: > > On 9/30/2016 5:42 PM, The Starmaker wrote: > > 1st Mars Colonists Should Be 'Prepared to Die,' Elon Musk Says > > http://www.space.com/34259-elon-musk-first-mars-colonists-prepared-die.html > > > > > > > > Is he talking about dying before liftoff to Mars??? > > > > no, dying as they get *cooked by radiation* on the surface of Mars. you gotta get off the ground first without it blowing up, what are the odds on that???? then you have to hope it doesn't blow up in the sky...what are the odds on that???? Does NASA sell flight insurance??? iwannareadthefineprint