From: Emily Smirle > > Not a good example at all. They still suffer bone decalcification, eye > deformation*, blood pressure problems, muscle wasting and etc. The > exercise helps, but it's hardly a replacement for gravity. > * They have NO IDEA why the eyes deform - but they do, and it seems to > cause permanent vision damage.
And we understand zero gravity a lot better than we understand low gravity or spin gravity. Our experience with low gravity is pretty much the Apollo missions, spin gravity was simulated on Earth but hardly in a way equivalent to a space station or for a comparable duration. The whole minimum size estimate is just from old NASA experiments that suggest 3 RPM (radius = 100 meters per G) as being something many people can adapt to and 1 RPM (radius = 900 meters per G) being something almost everyone can adapt to. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
