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 May 13 2007, 6:16 am
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If two astronauts were to mate on mars, their child would be the only human that would be from another planet. Would this baby be considered an alien? Also, would this baby be born with different attributes or even be considered human...
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Evre's right. And who knows how dependant on gravity the complex processes that form a child are?
There could be many unforeseen problems or changes in a child developed in a lower gravity caused by mess ups in the very delicate mechanics of chemical gradients and such when the foetus is just a couple of cells wide... I suppose that's one of the things they HAVEN'T tested in space yet. :P | |
Elation wrote:
There could be many unforeseen problems or changes in a child developed in a lower gravity caused by mess ups in the very delicate mechanics of chemical gradients and such when the foetus is just a couple of cells wide... I suppose that's one of the things they HAVEN'T tested in space yet. :P They grew some tomatoes... | |
Maybe in America you can equate "children" to "vegetables", but that's not the case in the rest of the world, Jon. =P
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Fail.
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Evre wrote:
Mars' gravity is roughly a third of Earth's, so the kid's muscles aren't going to develop as strongly. I wonder what would happen if a kid was born on Jupiter then... Would they have more strength? | |
strength wouldn't really help if you're born on a gaseous planet. just something to think about there, bwgmon
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Bwgmon wrote:
I wonder what would happen if a kid was born on Jupiter then... If the child managed to survive long enough to test their strength, I'd have to go with "yes". The muscles in its body would have to work harder to function. It'd sort of be like simply existing would count as a degree of strength training. Like I said, that's assuming the kid doesn't die from its heart exploding or lungs collapsing from their own weight or whatever. I can't imagine our initial physiology is very forgiving in terms of gravity variance. If it were a gradual increase, sure, but if you're just thrown headlong into an intense-gravity situation with organs and muscles that are meant to function in normal gravity, they're going to have a much more difficult time working. Pilots black out after so many G's because the blood becomes so heavy that it can't move as quickly through the veins so the brain doesn't get any fresh oxygen (I'm recalling this off the top of my head, so I could be wrong. You've been warned.) That's what happens to a fully developed, very healthy, very fit human adult. One could imagine a newborn faring much, much worse. Elation wrote: PokemonFrostbite Excellent comeback. | |
It's something interesting to think about. Almost makes me want to become an astronaut.
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Oh, it gets interesting when people start to use near-light-speed engines. Then all the time dialation stuff starts to get disorienting.
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Elation wrote:
Maybe in America you can equate "children" to "vegetables", but that's not the case in the rest of the world, Jon. =P Jon is Canada :( | |
Technically anyone born outside of a country's sovereign territory is considered an "alien" to them, and I suppose the child would technically be considered an alien to the planet itself, but both parents would have nationalities of origin, and for simplicity's sake I imagine one of those governments would love the PR that came along with garnering the citizenship of the only non-Earth born human in existence.
This is assuming the child's born on the shuttle. If it's born on a "colony" on the planet's surface, it's probably considered claimed territory by whatever country the flight hails from, which means the kid's already a citizen by default.