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| (David Polewka) wrote:
| The risks of space travel are anything but tamed.
| Maintaining the station and its equipment is a
| continuing challenge. Maintaining astronauts' health
| may be an even greater one. Experts say that in zero
| gravity they suffer from osteoporosis at a rate 10 times
| that of postmenopausal women.
|
| On a trip to Mars, 40 percent of them would lose more
| than half of the bone mineral in their hips, according to
| James A. Pawelczyk, an assistant professor of physiol-
| ogy and kinesiology at Pennsylvania State University
| and a former astronaut. The returning spacefarers
| would have hips as delicate as eggshells.
|
| Muscle mass also declines, and efforts to prevent the
| process have not been very successful, said Julie
| Robinson, the acting manager of science projects for
| the station program.
|
| In the same way that mammals evolved into dolphins to suit
| the watery environment, so too will man evolve into space
| creature - mark my words.
|
| Rohan.
You words are marked. And forgotten, imbecile.