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I always figured if they actually had to do that, there'd be combat drugs handed out like candy and it wouldn't be that big of an issue.
by 0xDEFC0DE 7y ago
I always figured if they actually had to do that, there'd be combat drugs handed out like candy and it wouldn't be that big of an issue.
- kbenson 7y agoI think that might only help if fighting was on the scale of hours to single digit days (and at the extreme end of that, there might be long lasting repercussions). That's of course assuming all the possible repercussions of being born and growing to adulthood in lower gravity that we don't yet currently know of have been accounted for and counteracted. I'm doubtful that training in higher gravity once an adult can negate the major negative effects of growing under lower gravity (which might include weaker bones), and so also doubt that a drug causing an even shorter term change can negate the negatives also.
- solotronics 7y agoI don't think Mars and Earth would go to war because of the mutually assured destruction (kinetic weapons such as asteroids). More likely they would fight proxy wars for resources / control of moons etc. This is similar to how the US/USSR on Earth struggled for supremacy.
- bayesian_horse 7y agoSpoiler alert: In "The Expanse" all of the above happens... Another reason why ground-level fighting on Earth is stupid for the Martians is that Earth has like 20 Billion inhabitants at that point, and Mars has "only" 5 Billion, and of course a lot less marines. Though I have to say that most Sci-Fi universes, the Expanse being no exception, are overly optimistic about population growth, and they must have shipped at least hundreds of Millions of colonists to Mars to achieve the stated population. Earth alone will probably not reach above 11 Billion Humans.