Re: Colonizing other places in ours sytem
From: Noam Izenberg <noam.izenberg@j...>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 08:32:57 -0400
Subject: Re: Colonizing other places in ours sytem
Re: Retaining an atmosphere.
If you can _get_ an atmosphere back onto Mars, the question is of how
long you can retain it. If I remember correctly, If you instantly gave
a ~ 1 bar earthlike atmosphere to Mars, it would continually thin but
remain liveable for hundreds of thousands of years without active
maintenance. The time would be considerable shorter (order(s)(?) of
magnitude) for the moon.
Re: human physical adaptation.
As has been said, as long as the trip were one way, the loss to bone
density etc, might not be considered a major issue. It would affect the
absolute physical durability of long-time residents or natives of the
low gravity environment. This has been fodder in the gaming and SF
worlds forever, where high-g worlders tend to be stronger and hardier,
sometimes awkward at low g, and low-g'ers more frail and "quick",
sometimes crippled at high-g. Has this been folded into SG or DS yet?
Re: immune system problems.
If they're real, positing development of immune system boosters
(biological or otherwise) in the not-too-distant future is no further a
stretch of imagination at this point as positing a self sufficient
colony on another world. Certainly more plausible than gravity plating.
Related GZGverse question: what human-colonized planets have the
strongest gravity? Could/should they be considered the best locations
for (physical) training of ground troops (assuming orbital facilities as
well for low/0-g components?
Big 'n' Mean Zero (Noam Izenberg - Don't mess with this Null)