Maybe people didn’t live long enough for skin cancer to make a difference?

Nah you got it perfect! (Also holy shit I didn’t expect to find a volapük learner on Lemmy)

Film theory did an interesting video where they concluded it’d be okay since he’d only be intaking a little over time. (Not saying that’s true)

Yeah they reference this in the book, it’s always from him when he uses the bacteria (meaning in theory it’s only his own pathogens or bacteria). He uses his crews shit that’s been dried and left in Martian temperatures so it’s sterilised.

They do something fun with this in the three body problem. It’s amazing and makes a ton of sense but in the real world the application will probably be a lot cleaner.

I thought the proposal to call them majority world countries was interesting.