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If I where sending men to mars for flags and footprints I would not use vasimr, I would probably use an array of hall thrusters. If I where colonizing mars I would use vasimr tugs. It's not that I like or dislike vasimr it just has its places and on the top of the list of where it works best is an interstellar mission.

Once we realized death was inevitable we had to come up with something to come after it or we would be less willing to take necessary risks and sacrifices. Se we invented the afterlife and that let us live our lives in peace. Then some sci/fages decided to replace the afterlife idea with living forever with advances in medical science and no one gave a single fuck.

"You wouldn't want to handle an animal like that, and yet they are surviving," said Cham E. Dallas, a UGA associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology, who - with fellow researchers - has made eight expeditions to Chernobyl since 1991.
The wildlife near Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, not only survives, it abounds in the area, now largely abandoned by humans. Species of fish and rodents do exhibit genetic change, but no apparent defects, according to Dallas.
The surprising data suggest that the environmental damage caused by Chernobyl was less severe than many experts had feared. Nevertheless, Dallas cautioned, it is too early to tell what the long-term effects of the disaster will be.
Dallas is presenting a paper summarizing his Chernobyl research during the American Chemical Society's 1997 annual meeting in Las Vegas, which runs through Friday, Sept. 12.
He and his colleagues also have published their findings in Nature and journals devoted to ecotoxicology and similar areas of study. The research is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
A 1986 explosionand fire in Chernobyl's Reactor 4 released 100 times more radioactivity than was released by the combined atom-bomb explosions at Hiroshima and Nagaski in 1945. UGA researchers have documented unprecedented levels of radiation in fish and rodents living in the area.
UGA researchers have considerable experience in radioecology, the study of bioeffects in the environment, through their work at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. Since 1951, SREL scientists have conducted ecological research at the Savannah River Site, a nuclear weapons materials processing complex on the Georgia-South Carolina border near Aiken, S.C.