RE: Colonizing other places in ours sytem

Try www.Marsgravity.org

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Barclay [mailto:kaladorn@magma.ca]
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 12:36 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Colonizing other places in ours sytem
> 
> 
> I've seen lots of sci-fi about making mars 
> habitable by giving it an atmosphere (ignoring 
> perhaps that the retention of molecules of 
> various type is I believe a byproduct of 
> gravity!). I've seen similar thoughts about the 
> moon. I've seen thoughts about living inside 
> domes. And they've talked about (I think) 
> Ganymede or some other moons as possible 
> places to live. 
> 
> But what I haven't seen is anyone suggest how 
> we beat the gravity problems. I've seen studies 
> by NASA (I believe) and others that seemed to 
> indicate that long term exposure to lower or 
> zero gravity depressed the human immune 
> system in an AIDS like manner. I've seen studies 
> that suggest you get bone density problems 
> that can't be fully offset by excercise. So, how 
> do we live on the moon or mars for a long time 
> barring the development of large scale, 
> presumably energy consumptive, gravity plating 
> that lets us simulate something like 75% or 
> better of a standard gravity? I mean this alone 
> seems to make Mars infeasible with today's 
> tech. We could go there, but it'd do a number 
> on us if we tried to live there....
> 
> Any thoughts? References? 
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> Thomas Barclay
> Co-Creator of http://www.stargrunt.ca 
> Stargrunt II and Dirtside II game site
> 
> No Battle Plan Survives Contact With Dice.
> -- Mark 'Indy' Kochte
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