"Rick" wrote in message
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"david" wrote in message
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Good grief, it's MARS for chrissakes. Would the radiation damage
the planet's native flora and fauna??


What a wonderfully crass , anally generated, truly American attitude!
It
isn't here, we don't know what's there so it MUST be zilch or worthless.

Do your kind ever learn?

Perhaps your British public school training is a bit wanting.

Mars' surface has been relentlessly bombarded with gamma and
high energy X-ray radiation for at least the last billion years. The
extra amount of radioactivity from a nuclear power cell would be
the literal equivalent of adding a single drop of water to an ocean.

Rick


Oh, thats okay then.

I wasn't arguing the physics, just the attitude.

D