[BartSimpson]

QBall QBall:

Not sure how people that frail would survive the G forces blasting off into space. Most seniors can't stand a minor change in their routine. I can't imagine how they could cope with the thought of never coming back to Earth. Plus I'm not sure how many seniors can afford the $25,000,000 plane ticket!

The 1% crowd would be the obvious pioneers as they could afford it. Then, as the infrastructure is put in place for routine trips the price will drop to become more affordable for others.

As to the g-forces, if there's money in it then someone will find a way around that problem.

[saturn_656]

raydan raydan:

They understand part of what a low-gravity environment can do to the human body, but I doubt they know all of it, especially if they leave someone up there for years. Will he/she ever be able to come back to Earth? What will low gravity do to a pregnant woman and her fetus if they decide to breed up there? What would it do to a growing child?

I'm guessing any children born and raised in a low grav. environment would be more slender and taller than the average human due to the lower lunar gravity.

Any return to Earth for such children wouldn't be practical, our gravity would be brutal for someone who sees lunar gravity as "normal".

[QBall]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

The 1% crowd would be the obvious pioneers as they could afford it. Then, as the infrastructure is put in place for routine trips the price will drop to become more affordable for others.

As to the g-forces, if there's money in it then someone will find a way around that problem.

The only problem I see with that is that now a lunar colony becomes a political leper because now it's seen as a new fad for the super rich. I know there have to be pioneers for the first new inhabitants, but if that's based on wallet size then John and Jane Public are not going to get behind this (kind of like now). And if the majority of the voters aren't behind this then you know the politicians won't get behind it either (kind of like now).

[Lemmy]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

If you're 70 years old and crippled by rheumatoid arthritis and then you're on the moon where suddenly you can walk around again I'm betting you'd never want to come back anyway.

Or you could save yourself the quarter of a million mile voyage and just smoke a little pot.