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eru 3 days ago

> This comes down to how biology works in zero and partial g.

Why? Just spin the thing.

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JumpCrisscross 3 days ago | parent [-]

> 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.

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eru 3 days ago | parent [-]

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.

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JumpCrisscross 3 days ago | parent [-]

> 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.

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		If you make it big enough, there's no discernible gradient and not much of a Coriolis force.