Question about production numbers

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
> 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...
>
a major root cause is that I was careless in choosing my ancestors.
Mother's side of the family was riddled with arthritis.

Low gravity means less stress on my body.

I seriously doubt there is anything that can remove the bone spurs
from my hips and shoulders.

> 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. :-))
>
My spine partly fused in 1975. Spinal calcification has led to
pressure on my sciatic nerve and leads to balance problems. I have
enough trouble staying on my feet without mixing in alcohol.

After 40 years of arthritis, it's hard to keep plugging on. Not to
mention being optimistic about the future.

> 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.