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I'm skeptical that this could really work, but imagine the breakthroughs that would be ushered in for both medicine and space travel if it turned out that zero

I'm skeptical that this could really work, but imagine the breakthroughs that would be ushered in for both medicine and space travel if it turned out that zero gravity diminished cancer? It would be the best incentive by far humans have ever had to develop space travel. And curing cancer at the same time! Billions of dollars of research funds could be redirected for developing rockets and we'd saving more lives than before! A wonderful narrative to a science fiction eutopia at least :)

m4r35n357 7y ago
. . . and replaces it with much worse!
mansoor_ 7y ago
Yep, 1-way tickets to explosive global warming.
- adrianN 7y ago
  Vastly improved rocketry could also make things like a huge mirror to shade the planet feasible.
  - sincerely 7y ago
    There's no way that doesn't have a trillion higher-order effects.
  - egdod 7y ago
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LbxDZRgA4#t=33s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LbxDZRgA4#t=33s
- jagger27 7y ago
  Methane rockets can be zero net carbon.
blablabla123 7y ago
Also considering how expensive a normal chemotherapy is, this might be within reason ;)
richmarr 7y ago
In a world where the median per capita income is $2,920 per year this just pushes us closer to the plot of Elysium. (Gallup 2013)
- jopsen 7y ago
  Try plotting the median income over 50 years.
  - richmarr 7y ago
    If you have a point, just make it.