re: Thanks, Nick... but you missed the atom bomb effect
Irrelevant, Mr. Dummy.
No Nitrogen=No C14, period.
Also, I'm not risking crew, and I did do my homework...
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/martianhighlands2001/pdf/4009.pdf
http://www.ipp.phys.ethz.ch/research/experiments/tandem/Annual/2002/26.pdf
http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/warsaw2000/programme/abstracts/bbi5560.pdf
http://www1.phys.uu.nl/ams/Radionuclides.htm
http://www.dal.ca/~cnef/NewFiles/tcnweb/
The primary radiation danger on the surface of Mars is unscreened solar and cosmic radiation, not secondaries...
