How Elon Musk’s dream of cities on Mars in 20yrs could spawn ‘green-skinned martian kids with brittle bones & weak eyes’

MUSK's dreams of forging quality cities connected Mars could spot children go "green-skinned martians with brittle bones and anemic eyes".

Experts foretell that the SpaceX mogul's plans to found cities connected Mars could permission humans mutating truthful atrocious they accommodate to being blind.

Musk, who is vocal astir his goals for humans to unrecorded connected Mars, believes we request to colonise it to go a "multi-planet species".

He posted connected X: "These volition beryllium uncrewed to trial the reliability of landing intact on Mars.

"If those landings spell well, past the archetypal crewed flights to Mars volition beryllium successful 4 years.

"Flight complaint volition turn exponentially from there, with the extremity of gathering a self-sustaining metropolis successful astir 20 years."

But Rice University biologist Scott Solomon claims humans would endure surviving conditions truthful brutal they punctual a alteration successful tegument colour and nonaccomplishment of eyesight.

Dr Solomon says it's the children of Martian settlers who would acquisition the astir drastic of evolutionary changes and mutate.

He says these kids would make brittle bones and weaker muscles, and whitethorn make a freakishly greenish colouring.

Dr Solomon writes successful his book: "Science fabrication has often portrayed Martians oregon aliens coming from Mars arsenic being gangly and lanky and thin."

It's besides thought that the weaker bones brought connected by the deficiency of gravity whitethorn origin a woman's pelvis to interruption during childbirth.

He explained that these mutations oregon changes would instrumentality spot overmuch faster connected Mars due to the fact that of the immense changes successful lifestyle, gravity and radiation.

Mars is smaller than Earth and has 38 per cent little gravity, lacks a planetary magnetic field, a heavy ambiance and a protective ozone layer.

This means Mars gets battered by abstraction radiation, UV light, charged particles from the prima and cosmic rays - starring to much mutations.

And this would origin higher mutation rates successful the DNA of humans surviving there, the biologist explains successful his book Future Humans.

He says that the tegument code of settlers would apt alteration to assistance them header with the radiation.

This would mean darker tegument and perchance successful a code we person ne'er seen before.

Dr Solomon says: "Perhaps successful the look of this precocious radiation, we mightiness germinate immoderate caller benignant of tegument pigment to assistance america woody with that radiation.

He added: "Maybe we get our ain greenish men."

The idiosyncratic besides predicts that humans surviving connected Mars would beryllium much near-sighted due to the fact that they would unrecorded successful tiny enclaves - truthful reducing the request to spot far.

He utilized cavefish - who chiefly unrecorded successful caves - arsenic an illustration to exemplify this.

The food are present unsighted due to the fact that they person adapted to surviving successful heavy trenches wherever they relation without vision.

Another study by scientists Eneko Axpe and Eric Appel claims that fractional of astronauts travelling to Mars would make Osteoporosis.

This is simply a health information communal successful aged people, that makes bones weaker and easier to fracture.

NASA scientists are trying to fig retired however to woody with abstraction weightlessness and its interaction connected the density of bones and muscles.

To combat the antagonistic consequences of humans roaming astir freely connected Mars, modern astronauts workout for 2 hours each day.

Appel said: "A batch of radical absorption connected the technological challenges of getting to Mars, oregon the intelligence challenges of being successful a spacecraft for 1,000 days, but not needfully the information that your bones decay.

"Can radical adjacent marque it, oregon volition they beryllium jello by the clip they get there?"