Grappling with Gravity : How Will Life Adapt to Living in Space?
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Astronomers' Universe
ISBN-10
1441968989
ISBN-13
9781441968982
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 8th, 2011
Print length
271 Pages
Weight
432 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.70 x 1.60 cms
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Grappling with Gravity explores the physiological changes that will occur in humans and the plants and animals that accompany humans as we move to new worlds, be it to colony in the emptiness of space or settlements on the Moon, Mars, or other moons or planets. As a person adapts in space he or she will become less fit to live on Earth.
Grappling with Gravity explores the physiological changes that will occur in humans and the plants and animals that accompany humans as we move to new worlds, be it to colony in the emptiness of space or settlements on the Moon, Mars, or other moons or planets. This book focuses on the biomedical aspects, while not ignoring other life-changing influences of space living. For example, what happens to people physiologically in the microgravity of space, where weight and the direction "up" become meaningless? Adapting to microgravity represents the greatest environmental challenge that life will have encountered since our ancestors moved from the seas to solid Earth. Away from Earth the human body will begin almost immediately to adapt and change, to be able to function in these strange environments. As a person adapts in space he or she will become less fit to live on Earth.
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