Question about production numbers

With no disrespect intended Rich, perhaps better nutrition and lifestyle would do more for your condition than micro gravity... and easier to get in the "now".

Less gravity may make some of the symptoms seem easier to bear, but it's doing nothing for the root causes...

And my dear Rich, you state your age like you are at the end of your life's expectancy...64 is hardly the point to consider giving it up! Not with so many exciting events and discoveries just about within our reach! Medicine has found that scotch whiskey is better for you than red wine... as also are dark beers. :-))

Doing some research on old grave sites has suggested that mortality risk was greatest only in babyhood, and in high risk occupations or locations where wars were common. The rest of folks seemed to have ripe old age. The stats on average age of people in the past (as a suggestion of population health) being in the 40's comes from factoring in HIGH infant mortality, which to me would skew the mode of real ages past babyhood.

One economic stat that is saddening is that approx. 3% of the USA population will be OK financially in retirement... which doesn't sound like it would be much chance for your average geriatric having the funds to get themselves a residence off-earth, even considering launch costs dropping to $1,500 a lbs. or $240,000 for an adult of 160 lbs.

All things being equal, one would think that economics would dictate placing into Space humans who are in as healthy a state as possible to be able to get maximum productivity from them over the longest timeframe. It would seem that folks with superior mental knowledge or experience alone could be accessed more cheaply through telecommunications.

:-(

From: Richard
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 12:53 PM
Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: Question about production numbers

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Lucio de Souza Coelho
wrote:
> On 6/14/05, panamabob@s...
> wrote:
> (...)
> > Who want to be the first guinea pig?
> >
> > :-)
> (...)
>
> For starts, everyone in this list, I think. :-)

Not to mention I'm 64, have had a series of minor strokes, and have
had arthritis for over 40 years. A low gravity habitat could add
years to my life, as well as make life easier.

Rick Brooks