How to fill a new Habitat?

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: How to fill a new Habitat?

# 5466 bytango_dancer@... on July 14, 2004, 12:46 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, omar vega wrote:
> Hi everybody:
>
> I have a question for anyone who may know the answer.
>
> The human body needs gravity in order to survive in
> the long term, but.
>
> What would happens if a human being live and work in a
> weighless environment, but have the chance to sleep in
> a kind of centrifugal room?
>
> That way, about 8 hours a day he will be exposed to
> a gravitational field, that is, a third of his time.
>
> Could that compensate for long time exposure to
> weighless environments?
>
> Just for curiosity.
>
> Omar

There ani't no such thing as a free lunch, LOL. The effects of zero-
g are replicated here on Earth by being bedridden. Simply sleeping
in a gravity environment won't help with the calcium loss, muscle
atrophy. blood counts, etc because you get the same on Earth by
sleeping.

TangoMan