Re: Colonizing other places in ours sytem

At 10:33 AM -0400 8/6/02, John Sowerby wrote:
>
>Arthur C. Clarke in '3001' has the idea the people living in the low 
>gravity levels of his ring city couldn't visit the Earth itself for 
>more than an hour or so without severe discomfort, and Heinlein in 
>'The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress' makes a similar point. Any settlers 
>on low gravity worlds would have problems, but their children, and 
>their children's children could well be unable to come back to Earth.

The Red/Green/Blue Mars series makes similar notes. But according to 
that series, short visits are possible depending on where you're 
coming from. Nirgal is I recall, had trouble on earth during his 
short visit and was quite happy to get back to low Gee's.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~fwb/rgbmars.html

Kim Stanley Robinson makes some interesting points about terraforming 
that had me thinking quite a bit. I also liked some of Sax's mars 
orbital defense methods in the low tech environment.

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