dying many decades before
oversterile environments cannot
the famous or notorious sabbatical has been proposed as an example of hormesis or Mithridatism, in which brief exposure to toxins strengthens the organism against greater
Earth’s continuing clutch on space-dwelling humans is physiological and will not go away unless it is fully characterized and all components of it effectively ameliorated
inoculations of helminths (ringworm), bacteria, viruses, etc., impossible to catalog and yet
possible psychological effects also, which means extreme difficulty in defining causation or treatment
not dissimilar to other five-hundred-year projects in intrinsic difficulty
effects are cumulative and lead to dysfunction
increase in longevity is a statistical fact but no guarantee for any particular individual. Life choices shift the probabilities of
regenerative therapies continue to improve
the biggest jump in the longevity graphs came at the start of the Accelerando, and many feel this was not a coincidence. There is a surge of energy that comes when you realize you may live much longer than you had thought possible. Problems that later complicate the picture don’t become evident until
the statistics are suggestive but the causes are not yet
life is a complex
STD, sudden traumatic death, insoluble
people should minimize their time in the lowest and highest gs if they want to maximize their chance at newly normative extended lifetimes, which keep getting longer
no real sense of what might be possible if improvements continue
could we live for thousands of
people compromise, they cut corners. They want to do things, they indulge their desires, their love of adventure
to have to return to Earth, so dirty and old, so oppressive, such a failure. So much the sad planet
they swore they would live by accident, but they were young at the time
most older spacers go home to Earth as advised, one year every seven, because these are the ones living the longest and the effect is self-reinforcing
the hunt continues for a fuller explanation
SWAN AND ZASHA
E arth’s thirty-seven space elevators all had their cars full all the time, both up and down. There were still many spacecraft landings and ascents, of course, and landings of gliders that then reascended on the elevators; but all in all, the elevators handled by far the bulk of the Earth-space traffic. Going down in the cars were food (a crucial percentage of the total needed), metals, manufactured goods, gases, and people. Going up were people, manufactured goods, the substances common on Earth but rare in space—these were many, including things animal, vegetable, and mineral, but chiefly (by bulk) rare earths, wood, oil, and soil. The totals came to quite a flow of physical mass up and down, all powered by the counterbalanced forces of gravity and the rotation of the Earth, with a bit of solar power to make up the difference.
The anchor rocks at the upper ends of the elevator cables were like giant spaceliners, as very little of their original asteroidal surfaces were left visible; their exteriors were covered with buildings, power units, elevator loading zones and the like. They were in effect giant harbors and hotels and, as such, extremely busy places. Swan passed through the one called Bolivar and settled into one of the hotel cars without even noticing it; to her it had just been a complicated set of doors and locks and corridors, getting her into yet another set of rooms. She was resigned to the long ride down to Quito. It was an irony of their time that the trip down the elevator cable was going to take longer than many interplanetaryvoyages, but that’s the way it was. Five days stuck in a hotel. She spent the days attending performances of Glass’s
Satyagraha
and
Akhnaten
, also dancing hard in a grueling class designed to get people toughened up for one g, which sometimes hit her pretty hard. Looking down through the clear floor, she got familiar again
oversterile environments cannot
the famous or notorious sabbatical has been proposed as an example of hormesis or Mithridatism, in which brief exposure to toxins strengthens the organism against greater
Earth’s continuing clutch on space-dwelling humans is physiological and will not go away unless it is fully characterized and all components of it effectively ameliorated
inoculations of helminths (ringworm), bacteria, viruses, etc., impossible to catalog and yet
possible psychological effects also, which means extreme difficulty in defining causation or treatment
not dissimilar to other five-hundred-year projects in intrinsic difficulty
effects are cumulative and lead to dysfunction
increase in longevity is a statistical fact but no guarantee for any particular individual. Life choices shift the probabilities of
regenerative therapies continue to improve
the biggest jump in the longevity graphs came at the start of the Accelerando, and many feel this was not a coincidence. There is a surge of energy that comes when you realize you may live much longer than you had thought possible. Problems that later complicate the picture don’t become evident until
the statistics are suggestive but the causes are not yet
life is a complex
STD, sudden traumatic death, insoluble
people should minimize their time in the lowest and highest gs if they want to maximize their chance at newly normative extended lifetimes, which keep getting longer
no real sense of what might be possible if improvements continue
could we live for thousands of
people compromise, they cut corners. They want to do things, they indulge their desires, their love of adventure
to have to return to Earth, so dirty and old, so oppressive, such a failure. So much the sad planet
they swore they would live by accident, but they were young at the time
most older spacers go home to Earth as advised, one year every seven, because these are the ones living the longest and the effect is self-reinforcing
the hunt continues for a fuller explanation
SWAN AND ZASHA
E arth’s thirty-seven space elevators all had their cars full all the time, both up and down. There were still many spacecraft landings and ascents, of course, and landings of gliders that then reascended on the elevators; but all in all, the elevators handled by far the bulk of the Earth-space traffic. Going down in the cars were food (a crucial percentage of the total needed), metals, manufactured goods, gases, and people. Going up were people, manufactured goods, the substances common on Earth but rare in space—these were many, including things animal, vegetable, and mineral, but chiefly (by bulk) rare earths, wood, oil, and soil. The totals came to quite a flow of physical mass up and down, all powered by the counterbalanced forces of gravity and the rotation of the Earth, with a bit of solar power to make up the difference.
The anchor rocks at the upper ends of the elevator cables were like giant spaceliners, as very little of their original asteroidal surfaces were left visible; their exteriors were covered with buildings, power units, elevator loading zones and the like. They were in effect giant harbors and hotels and, as such, extremely busy places. Swan passed through the one called Bolivar and settled into one of the hotel cars without even noticing it; to her it had just been a complicated set of doors and locks and corridors, getting her into yet another set of rooms. She was resigned to the long ride down to Quito. It was an irony of their time that the trip down the elevator cable was going to take longer than many interplanetaryvoyages, but that’s the way it was. Five days stuck in a hotel. She spent the days attending performances of Glass’s
Satyagraha
and
Akhnaten
, also dancing hard in a grueling class designed to get people toughened up for one g, which sometimes hit her pretty hard. Looking down through the clear floor, she got familiar again
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