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> This comes down to how biology works in zero and partial g. Why? Just spin the thing.

• JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > Why? Just spin the thing Sure. Let's put rats in centrifuges in space and see if they can reproduce successfully. Maybe there is a coriolis boundary. Maybe something weird happens.
  • eru 1y ago
    If you make your centrifuge big enough, it's fine. But yeah, sticking rats in a centrifuge is probably a better first step than starting with humans.
    • JumpCrisscross 1y ago
      > If you make your centrifuge big enough, it's fine We don't know this! We don't know how (or even if) an embryo develops under the Coriolis force, or with a gravity gradient.
      • deleted 1y ago
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      • eru 1y ago
        If you make it big enough, there's no discernible gradient and not much of a Coriolis force.