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Commented on Covid on Mars
In addition to hemp, linen might be a good fiber to use to meet the increased demand for cloth for face masks, hospital linens, and filter media. Scaling up production of synthetic fibers would require engineering effort. Hemp and linen...
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Commented on Covid on Mars
On Earth, the current most economical way of producing large quantities of ultrapure water as a precursor to sterile saline solution is through reverse osmosis after multi-stage filtration. However, the filters are consumables, and require tight process controls. Difficult and...
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Commented on Covid on Mars
Pervasive surveillance would give faster, more granular automatic contact tracing, but could also be used to direct cleaning robots to sanitize specific filters and surfaces. Today: "You spent 15 minutes less than two meters away from someone who tested positive."...
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Commented on Covid on Mars
With respect to the likelihood of an infection not manifesting and being detected in the 37 weeks it would take a Hohmann transfer to get to Mars - it's weird and unintuitive, but only a factor of two different from...