Mars-bound astronauts 'will' face chronic dementia risk from galactic cosmic ray exposure

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 6 months ago to Science
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Will astronauts traveling to Mars remember much of it? That’s the question concerning University of California, Irvine scientists probing a phenomenon called “space brain.”

Here is a clue as to why our members of the worlds kakistocray's act so strange...maybe they did come from space and therefore are effected by "SPACE BRAIN"!

['will'] is my addition to the title.
SOURCE URL: https://news.uci.edu/research/mars-bound-astronauts-face-chronic-dementia-risk-from-galactic-cosmic-ray-exposure/


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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 6 months ago
    There is a solution to every problem. All it takes is for our scientists to bend their efforts towards solving them. I truly believe that no problem is unsolvable, given time, effort and money.

    Now, when it comes to "Space Brain" I think that may be a misnomer. Since so many people in Washington take drugs, it is likely that a better description is "Spaced Brain."
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 7 years, 6 months ago
    There are a variety of solutions to the cosmic ray problem. The key is to have what are called "low Z" materials that do not emit heavy particles when struck with high energy cosmic radiation. Lead is not low Z, but there are much lighter materials that qualify. Water is also an effective shield. This information isn't new, but is receiving new attention now that private entrepreneurs like Elon Musk are talking about a Mars mission.
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 7 years, 6 months ago
    Maybe, maybe not. This same institute of higher learning also says we have global warming. What are the drug companies doing, but producing drug-induced Alzheimer disease? Meanwhile, Hillary, speaking to the CFR, has admitted they are dumbing down schools, saying, "We know, the goal is to produce socially uninformed people." If one doesn't get you, something else will.
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  • Posted by JohnConnor352 7 years, 6 months ago
    What is a "galactic cosmic ray?"
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      Highly charged particles from other stars in the galaxcy...usually sunspot flairing builds up our magnetic shielding, not to mention the heliosphere, which surrounds our solar system, protects us from low to moderate cosmic radiation, but our shields are down 25% Captain and the sun, she ain't flairing due to the Grand solar Minimum phase we are in now.
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      • Posted by JohnConnor352 7 years, 6 months ago
        Uhhhh ok then... so it's a particle, not a ray?
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        • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago
          Wave-particle duality of light. It's both. ;)
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          • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
            Thanks for the info...maybe JC can picture that.

            Much of these events are not all photons...there is everything under the sun involved or pushed along with them...all of it, highly charged.
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            • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago
              There is also solar wind, that is correct. But "cosmic rays" are specifically electromagnetic events in a wide spectra, including dangerous gamma and X-rays. There may also be some alpha and beta radiation as well, but these aren't typically dangerous to spacecraft as even aluminum foil blocks them.
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        • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
          Yea...not sure why they say that unless it's because more powerful forms are like hot plasma?..some of the radiation and particles we get from our sun is a sort of plasma...which too, is electricity...Maybe the phrase came from Buck Rodgers...laughing
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  • Posted by cjferraris 7 years, 6 months ago
    Or what if they find that it's just a side effect from being weightless for so long??
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      The human body and brain (it's electric dont'chya know) can't withstand a high level localized lower atmosphere cosmic burst as I posted recently...those most at risk, even here on earth, die with strokes and heart attacks.
      Right now I'm am wondering how, with a weakened magnetic shield, a significant cosmic radiation burst will effect us at ground level over time. We've also seen that the over use of sugar inhibits the body from cleaning out the waist of dead cells out of the body...not to mention weakened immune systems due to prescription medications.
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  • Posted by wiggys 7 years, 6 months ago
    I accept that we in the usa mighty actually send a tem into space heading to mars. However it is so far in the future that I can't see when it will happen. But when it does I expect they will not remember any of it because they will die during the trip going there.
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 7 years, 6 months ago
    Having worked on the space program for over 50 years I recognize that there are many challenges that must be overcome. Radiation induced tissue degradation is just one of many. Micro musculature atrophy is another and redistribution of body fluids yet another. And we must not forget psychological issues. For the most part these are engineering problems in that they will submit to solutions that are based on careful analysis and understanding. It is difficult but I don't see any real showstoppers, at least not yet.
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    • Posted by wiggys 7 years, 6 months ago
      just a pipe dream, impossible. the show should be stopped and the monies funding nasa should end since the people whose money is confiscated for this government activity should be left off the hook. the people taxed could put the money to better uses.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 7 years, 6 months ago
    Bullshit.
    But I will not give it minus one because it is a good topic worth discussing.

    Look: we are all born looking down the barrel of a gun. The tragedy is not that we are mortal, but that we know it. So, when offered the greatest chance in the history of mankind to this moment, what is your answer?

    Myself, it is hyssop, capsicum, colloidal sliver and atomic gold, in addition to a handful of the common vitamins, a daily, a B100, two Es... you get the picture. I want to live to be 100+ so that I can go to Mars with Elon Musk.

    The rest of you Neanderthals can hunker down in your Prepper Man Caves.

    (Bye!: https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2... )
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      I agree with the naturals, they clean the body the best. It always pisses me off when they say...we'll develop some pharmaceutics...to that I say bullshit, there are plenty of natural compounds and herbs that'll do the trick.
      Still, space radiation is a problem.
      Was listening to a "fly on the wall discussion' and we wondered if just being away from the shuman resonance, the magnetic field and the natural electricity...might play it's role in our demise out there. The idiots in charge can't see the big picture and can not take everything into account.
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      • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 7 years, 6 months ago
        Think of the early days of the European empires, when sailing crews suffered from scurvy and much more. Still, they set sail... This, too, will be figured out.
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        • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
          You might be interested to know that many of today's diseases are symptoms of scurvy...the vitamin C that's added to everything is fake...it's only one chemical, where as vitamin C is actually a complex. But even that one chemical is a cancer killer taken in high doses intravenously.
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          • Posted by lrshultis 7 years, 6 months ago
            References for that please. If it were that simple it would, despite government and pharmaceutical companies, be curing diseases and putting the companies out of business. ]
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            • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
              I'm sure Natural News has the medical references and I do know, cause it's where I first heard of it, that it is an excepted protocol in New Zealand...you could google Doctors in your area that administer Vitamin C intravenously. Just look up, Intravenous vitamin C.

              Yes it would put those allopathic, treat the symptoms not the cause, creatures OUT OF BUSINESS.
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              • Posted by lrshultis 7 years, 6 months ago
                What is wrong with this quote from Natural News?

                "Man's body was designed to function best with high blood and cellular levels of vitamin C - synthesized as needed by the liver." - Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD, board-certified cardiologist

                Do they really believe that?
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