High G

From: xenophile2002@... [mailto:xenophile2002@...]

> I've heard one point of data in the opposite direction from the
> old S.F. idea. A study with rats in 3G (they lived in centrifuges)
> On average, they were more healthy, with longer lifespans.

I'd be interested in reading more about this. Website?

Not sure about anything on-web, but I'd recommend Ed Regis' "Great Mambo
Chickens and the Transhuman Condition", which discusses such experiments
with chickens. It's also to be recommended for it's treatment of O'Neill's
concepts. I think he got right to the heart of the reason for the
superiority of the idea over the planetary idea.

And interestingly, O'Neill's work fell fairly far to the left on his
weirdness spectrum: weirder than Bob Truax wanting to fly you into space for
a profit, but not as weird as being frozen when you die.

Regards,

Mike Combs

From:
xenophile2002@... [mailto:xenophile2002@...]
> I've heard one point of data in the opposite direction from the
> old S.F. idea. A study with rats in 3G (they lived in centrifuges)
> On average, they were more healthy, with longer lifespans.
I'd be interested in reading more about this. Website?

Not sure about anything on-web, but I'd recommend Ed Regis' "Great Mambo Chickens and the Transhuman Condition", which discusses such experiments with chickens. It's also to be recommended for it's treatment of O'Neill's concepts. I think he got right to the heart of the reason for the superiority of the idea over the planetary idea.

And interestingly, O'Neill's work fell fairly far to the left on his weirdness spectrum: weirder than Bob Truax wanting to fly you into space for a profit, but not as weird as being frozen when you die.

Regards,
Mike Combs