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Posted by Hemos on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @12:52AM from the i'll-gum-ya-to-death dept.

Ant wrote to us with a story on Discovery about the long term consequences of manned and "womanned" missions to Mars - lots of research about bone-weakening effects of zero G environments, with tooth loss high on the list.

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All I want for christmas is my two front teeth (Score:5, Funny)

by xted ( 125437 ) writes: on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @12:56AM (#2224247) Homepage

I say we get all the astronauts to smile for a group picture when they land on mars.

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Get people from the Backwoods of Arkansas... (Score:2, Funny)

by BiggestPOS ( 139071 ) writes: on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @01:03AM (#2224273) Homepage

They are already toothless :)
(just joking, its a fine state, I lived through High School there)

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ummm.... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @01:05AM (#2224285)

last i checked, mars had gravity... then again, I haven't been there in a while...

- god

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Send John Glenn (Score:5, Funny)

by Swaffs ( 470184 ) writes: <swaff@ERDOSfudo.org minus math_god> on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @01:11AM (#2224305) Homepage

He probably doesn't have any teeth left anyway.

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Re:That's not an insurmountable obstacle (Score:4, Funny)

by number one duck ( 319827 ) writes: on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @01:44AM (#2224371) Journal

But how are you going to open bottles and tighten bolts on your way home? Teeth are much more mass/fuel effecient than spanners will ever be...

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was a Russian mission at first. Teaches me to not read the article...

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Re:shoot for the moon (Score:3, Funny)

by drsoran ( 979 ) writes: on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @07:57AM (#2224793)

Also Mars has that giant alien machine underground that heats up the frozen ice core and releases oxygen into the environment within a matter of minutes to create an instant earth-like atmosphere. Does the moon? No way. So we got that going for us.

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Re:All I want for christmas is my two front teeth (Score:3, Funny)

by SEWilco ( 27983 ) writes: on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @09:20AM (#2224987) Journal

Well, I think that if the astronauts lose all their teeth then they would just suck.

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Re:astronauts don't need teeth anyway... (Score:2, Funny)

by dR.fuZZo ( 187666 ) writes: on Tuesday August 28, 2001 @11:05AM (#2225421)

So what about when they get back to Earth?

You mean they're supposed to come back?

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All I want for christmas is my two front teeth (Score:5, Funny)

Get people from the Backwoods of Arkansas... (Score:2, Funny)

ummm.... (Score:1, Funny)

Send John Glenn (Score:5, Funny)

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