Can we live long and prosper in space? The astronaut health dilemma

[Admin]

Space life scientists are pushing for the development of an international database on long-term health effects of spaceflight.

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[Atlan0001]

As I wrote elsewhere, the number one necessity for life in space now becomes gravitied (sic) facilities!!! Space on the cheap (gravity-less facilitation) is becoming infinitely expensive to life in space without gravitied facilitation in the space frontier! There will be no breakout, no truly healthy occupation (nothing sturdier, more enlarging, and more resistant to the outer environment developed), no expansion of occupation, until we have gravity inside long occupation space facilities! Gravity is a most necessary environmental requirement for life and the prosperity of life in that next frontier. With gravitied facilitation done mankind can think about everything else that needs to be done. Without it, as so far it hasn't, mankind won't get that far, guaranteed!

 

[billslugg]

SpaceX proposes a 100 meter radius donut spinning at 3 RPM providing 1 g of artificial gravity. The rim speed would be 31 m/s. There is no need for the entire donut, two spacecraft could be tethered with a 200 meter cable and set spinning.

SpaceX's New Plan To Create Artificial Gravity In Space (complexob7.com)

 

[Atlan0001]

SpaceX proposes a 100 meter radius donut spinning at 3 RPM providing 1 g of artificial gravity. The rim speed would be 31 m/s. There is no need for the entire donut, two spacecraft could be tethered with a 200 meter cable and set spinning.

SpaceX's New Plan To Create Artificial Gravity In Space (complexob7.com)

No argument. That would be a good start . . . and 'Voyager Station' also, if it ever comes to fruition! Then, via progressive toolings and stages, we will be on our way up to the 'Stanford Torus' in a L-point orbit. Then on our way to sending them out to other orbits, the equivalent of cloud city-states in other planets', and major moons', orbits, not to mention the asteroid belt. It just needs a beginning, an imperative to getting there at all, and you point to one.

 

[murgatroyd]

If we take a giant octopus and implant a human brain, absence of gravity would not be a problem. Down in the deep sea, gravity is negligible as compared to water pressure and can be ignored. Then we need to make them air-breathing, too. Their tentacles would make them good workers for mining the asteroid belt. For interstellar travel, a tardigrade-human hybrid should work well. A thousand years in hibernation? No problemo. To colonize marginally habitable planets (we won't find an Earth 2.0), genetically engineering adapted colonists would work quicker than geoengineering. As long as they retain some human DNA, they're still our descendants, and we will have fulfilled our imperative that intelligent life shall not perish from the galaxy.