How to fill a new Habitat?

--- 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
>
A quite simple answer. We don't know.

Human beings might adapt to living in zero gravity. Human beings
might not adapt to living even in low gravity. The only way we'll
find out out is by large numbers of people living in low or zero gravity.

We could end up with different races of people.

I think low gravity would lead to longer life. I could be wrong.

We can discuss this until the end of time. The only way to be sure is
to try all the possibilities. No, it won't be safe. Life usually isn't.

When I was a boy 50 -60 years back, we were a lot more casual about
things. We were snowed in. My brother had a nasty fever. Years later,
two of three doctors thought he had a heart murmur. So he flunked his
army physical.

WhenI was five, we had bee hives near the house. I rapped on them
with a stick. My parents pulled hundreds of stings out of me. Afraid
I was dead for a while.

Rick Brooks