Space pioneer to send 80K to Mars for $500k
: SpaceX founder Elon Musk has announced detailed plans to send 80,000 people to colonise Mars by ferrying explorers to the Red Planet for $500,000 per trip.
Musk, the first private space entrepreneur to launch a successful mission to the International Space Station, said what would begin by first sending less than 10 people could blossom “into something really big”.
“At Mars, you can start a self-sustaining civilisation and grow it into something really big,” Musk told the Royal Aeronautical Society in London.
Laying out precise details and figures to his “difficult” but “possible” plans, the space pioneer says the first ferry of explorers would be no more than 10 people at a price tag of $500,000 per ticket, the Daily Mail reported.
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Mixing medicines with grapefruit ‘can be deadly’
Toronto: Mixing medicines with grapefruit poses serious health problems including acute kidney failure and respiratory problems, doctors warn.
Although it was already known that some drugs are affected by grapefruit, the number has doubled in the last four years. Grapefruit juice can interact with more than 85 oral medications, with about half of them potentially leading to severe — even deadly — consequences, finds a comprehensive research by the Western University in London, Ontario.
“Many of the drugs that interact with grapefruit are highly prescribed and are essential for the treatment of important or common medical conditions,” researchers said.
Lead researcher David Bailey said that in the last four years, the number of medications with the potential to interact with grapefruit and cause severe adverse effects has increased from 17 to at least 43. — PTI