Mars Colony – Fan Questions | StarTalk

ah so the key phrase their current
technology if you put a challenge
dangled a challenge in front of
engineers they solve it provided you
don’t require them to violate known laws
of physics they’ll solve it so people
talk old radiation from the Sun how are
we gonna blew it against that and what
about just engineer solve it and then
they solve it there are materials that
absorb radiation water is among them you
can imagine a ship that’s encased in a
shell of water and this is the water
that would cycle through the
life-support systems the the cooling
systems your own digestive system gets
refill turd and it gets used as a as a
protective shield you get to Mars you
build a shelter there these dangerous
rays don’t make it through rock and the
rock could be relatively thin at that so
I’m not worried about that way bigger
issue is can we afford to do it
financially solve that problem for us
the rest will come