Activity for dthreeâ€
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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When does gravity become too much for humanoids? Supposing you took Earth or a planet like it and doubled its mass, the gravity would obviously increase in whatever proportion to that. As a result, humans as we know them would be ... thicker, (I guess?) to support the additional gravity. At what order of magnitude of gravity (or its relative siz... (more) |
— | almost 10 years ago |
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Could Mars-colonized humans survive a return to Earth? Mars' gravity is 38% of that of Earth's. Supposing a human born and raised on a Mars colony traveled to earth later in their life, would they be able to survive the increased gravity? For example, I would weigh 63 pounds on Mars, and would land on Earth weighing 166 pounds. What physiological eff... (more) |
— | about 10 years ago |