Bazillionaire
Dennis Tito's Inspiration Mars mission to send a man and a woman to the
Red Planet has got 99 problems, but radiation from cosmic rays ain't one.
Why? Because it's just been solved ... by poo.
... their greatest health risk comes from exposure to the radiation
from cosmic rays. The solution? Line the spacecraft's walls with water,
food and their own faeces.
"It's a little queasy sounding, but there's no place for that
material to go, and it makes great radiation shielding," says Taber
MacCallum, a member of the team funded by multimillionaire Dennis Tito,
who announced the audacious plan earlier this week.
McCallum told New Scientist that solid and liquid human waste products
would get put into bags and used as a radiation shield – as well
as being dehydrated so that any water can be recycled for drinking.
"Dehydrate them as much as possible, because we need to get the
water back," he said. "Those solid waste products get put
into a bag, put right back against the wall."
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