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Stasis is not the science fiction type of stasis where you are frozen in time; it is more akin to hibernation. We will slow the bodies of humans down to a state where they can still function as a person but not get deadly hypothermia. Astronauts aren’t supposed to live off of their body fat for 8 months like bears so scientists have come up for a solution to give humans that same affect by giving them liquid nutrients directly into the bloodstream. This is great because it bypasses the digestive system and does not produce waste that takes up room on a ship.
This solves the problem that the trip to mars takes too long for a person to be comfortable on a spaceship. An active human requires many provisions to keep them alive or entertained, for months at a time. If humans were to be in stasis, then it would keep the mass of the ship down without all of the food required to keep however many people alive for that long on top of all of the food and water that they
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This is a goal that the human race has been trying to achieve for years. The one problem with this is that we may have another space race to get to mars instead of the moon. This could also help our economy. Our economy would rise if we were able to make it to mars. Many people would want to be a part of the program to be some of the first on mars. Some ethical issues that this raises is how people will react being treated as guinea pigs to figure out what it would be like to be in stasis for a long period of time. We can only hope that people will not come out of it physically and mentally fit which is a big problem currently with only being able to put people into stasis for only a few days. It is not right to be testing this on people or animals to see what would happen to the test subjects for being exposed to hypothermia for a long period of time and see if a mammal can successfully get out of the state in one

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