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Sex in Space: The Final Frontier for Mars Colonization?
Artist's illustration of colonists on Mars. Scientists don't yet know how babies would develop and grow away from Earth, and this lack of knowledge poses a possible hurdle to establishing sustainable space settlements, experts say.
Credit: Illustration: Pat Rawlings/NASA
If humanity is serious about colonizing Mars, we need to get busy studying how to get busy in space.
"But if we want to become a spacefaring species and we want to live in space permanently, this is a crucial issue that we have to address that just has not been fully studied yet," he added.
But the mouse sperm was brought back to Earth to produce embryos, which grew here on terra firma. How a human embryo would fare when away from Earth — in the microgravity environment of orbit or deep space, or on Mars, whose surface gravity is just 38 percent as strong as that of our planet — remains a mystery, Lehnhardt said.
"We have no idea how they're going to develop," he said. "Will they develop bones the way that we do? Will they ever be capable of coming to Earth and actually standing up?"
The panel discussion also featured former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría; Sheyna Gifford, a member of the HI-SEAS IV simulated Mars mission in Hawaii; and journalist Alison Stewart. You can watch the entire discussion on the AtlanticLIVE YouTube channel.
originally posted by: rickymouse
Can you imagine how it would be to have semen floating all over in the spacecraft getting stuck to things.
originally posted by: rickymouse
Can you imagine how it would be to have semen floating all over in the spacecraft getting stuck to things.
originally posted by: rickymouse
Can you imagine how it would be to have semen floating all over in the spacecraft getting stuck to things.
originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
I think there's an opportunity here for me to patent some space sex aid paraphernalia -- trussed frames and straps and cables and pulleys and such.
That way, I will be well-positioned (no pun intended) to make some patent royalty money when the time comes that these devices will become necessary.
originally posted by: rickymouse
Can you imagine how it would be to have semen floating all over in the spacecraft getting stuck to things.
originally posted by: Cloudbuster
But but but what about star trek and Battlestar Galactica where they live on the space ship forever and they don't float around sharing their sperm with everything they have some anti gravity thingy. I'm not really dumb.........
originally posted by: midnightstar
yea that is why you need good shielding .
layer of Aluminium outer layer between crushed asteroid 6 inches and no radiation can possibly get through .
Spin it up to the equivalent of 1 g kids are normal sex is normal ( except right in the center of the spindle .
There you can try you no gravity sex if you like lol .
Really all this is talking about effects of space is only do to using tin cans as living space .
as for mars there is more of a problem living there by the 3rd generation the person will not be able to step foot on earth no medical science will solve that on .
What baffles me is why we are so fixated on mars ( otehr then yes it may have had life .
Venus is the right size and has atmosphere and no massive geoengineering need just add algy or some type thing to the upper atmosphere and wate a few 100 years .
( but even then there would still be problems for all intents and peruses Venus keeps one face to the sun its day is longer then its year so one side will be to hot one side will be to cold and they call it Goldilocks for a resion the middle will be just right lol