{"id":7702,"date":"2025-12-12T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:49:37","slug":"impossible-for-humans-to-reach-mars-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/impossible-for-humans-to-reach-mars-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;IMPOSSIBLE&#8221; for Humans to Reach MARS is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0c\/Mars_-_August_30_2021_-_Flickr_-_Kevin_M._Gill.png\/500px-Mars_-_August_30_2021_-_Flickr_-_Kevin_M._Gill.png\" alt=\"Mars (image courtesy Wikipedia)\" width=\"390\" height=\"390\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Mars<\/strong> (image courtesy Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You might have heard an Alarming Youtube video declaring flatly &#8212; &#8220;Why is it &#8220;IMPOSSIBLE&#8221; for Humans to Reach MARS&#8221; by Michio Kaku<\/p>\n<p>Well, its not the first time Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=7321\">Kaku (famous for Wormholes and Strings) has been wrong.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The single problem he illuminates is Solar radiation. Our Sun like most other stars, produces an occasional blast from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coronal_mass_ejection\">Coronal Mass Ejections<\/a> (CMEs) along with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coronal_mass_ejection\">high energy radiation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_energetic_particles\">solar energetic particles<\/a> (SEPs) consisting of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proton\">protons<\/a>, electrons, alpha particles and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plasma_(physics)\">plasmas.<\/a> This is a real problem, a potentially deadly one, but it has been solved in a practical sense recently. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, its a serious problem, but it was<strong> recently solved with clever ideas (that have been around for decades) and practical experiments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just like Star-Trek&#8217;s Force field, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk\/Pages\/New-spaceship-force-field-makes-Mars-trip-possible.aspx\">researchers have created a mini-magnetosphere that works as a deflector shield.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Problem solved.<\/p>\n<p>Yes the shield (so far) may have to be a couple hundred meters\/yards across, but it won&#8217;t require tons (literally) of water or lead.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk\/Pages\/New-spaceship-force-field-makes-Mars-trip-possible.aspx<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have heard an Alarming Youtube video declaring flatly &#8212; &#8220;Why is it &#8220;IMPOSSIBLE&#8221; for Humans to Reach MARS&#8221; by Michio Kaku Well, its not the first time Mr. Kaku (famous for Wormholes and Strings) has been wrong. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/impossible-for-humans-to-reach-mars-is-wrong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basic-astrophysics","category-basic-science","category-particles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7709,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions\/7709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}