The 'pancosmorio theory' says that for humans to survive in space, missions must duplicate ecological conditions found back home, including Earth's gravity.
The theory almost goes without saying. Of course a long term space mission needs oxygen for astronauts to breatheapproach to the problem of human survivability and backsit this far under certain conditions, and a failures from which human life has evolved. Such conditions are required to sustain human life at its current level of growth,” the scientists write in their study.
How would the gravity needs for an extended stay on a space station differ from those of a mission to a planet’s surface? What happens if humans need to survive for extended periods of time on a planet with a fraction of Earth’s gravity? How would something like conceiving and gestating a human embryo work in an environment with gravity that doesn’t match Earth’s?
“Gravity induces a gradient in the fluid pressure within the body of the living thing to which the autonomic functions of the life form are attuned,” Lee G. Irons said in the press release. “An example of gravity imbalance would be the negative affect on the eyesight of humans in Earth orbit, where they don’t experience the weight necessary to induce the pressure gradient.
and uses some evolutionary context to back up their importance. What’s exciting is that some of these different pieces are already being studied, just at a smaller scale than these scientists would hope.
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