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Your statement completely ignores evolution and the human body's ability to adapt to its environment. Sure, the timelines for such adaptations to develop are t
by halviti 11y ago
Your statement completely ignores evolution and the human body's ability to adapt to its environment.
Sure, the timelines for such adaptations to develop are totally unknowable at this point, but you should never say never, especially with the progress being made in the field of genetics.
- bsbechtel 11y ago>>Your statement completely ignores evolution and the human body's ability to adapt to its environment. Maybe so, but how useful is a human body that's well adapted for space for any other environment?
- halviti 11y agoI would pose the question of why you need a one-size-fits-all creature.
- Tuna-Fish 11y agoEvolution requires selection. Or in other words, having humans evolve into surviving in microgravity would require letting the least adapted people die of it for tens of generations. This doesn't seem like something that potential space colonists would be exited about.
- rlpb 11y ago> having humans evolve into surviving in microgravity would require letting the least adapted people die of it for tens of generations. Not necessarily. The least adapted people just need to have fewer children.
- Retric 11y agoOr have children somewhere else.
- gshubert17 11y agoOr we could select astronauts for longer missions based on these results. A person without legs (a double amputee, perhaps) might be able to perform all necessary activities while in orbit, but not suffer some of the ill effects.