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Although what about from a human health perspective? Can humans survive in a gravity that weak for a long time? What about animals?


What's long? a year? twenty?

And to answer that question and others is why we(humans) have bothered with Space Lab, Mir, IST. You can Google answer.


No, I mean if humans were to colonize Mars -- would gravity make that process difficult?


Definitely, with little gravity it could even be impossible for women to bear and give birth to a child


I'm unfamiliar with how gravity factors into pregnancy and birthing. Do you have any further details on that?


I found this: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=702




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