Re: Selenites (was Re: equinox)

At 10:43 PM 9/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
>-----Mensaje original-----
>De: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>>Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinz=F3n wrote:
>>Well, someone born on the Moon would probably die if he came to Earth -
>>the gravity would be too intense.  It's hard enough for astronauts
>>returning to Earth after spending a few months in space.
>It would make the Lunar Settlers more isolated form Earth... and would=
 maybe
>undergo some physical changes...  But there's gravity in the moon (1/6g or
>somthing like that) so it would not be as hard as for astronauts falling in
>orbits around the Earth.
Well, simply for health reasons they would likely need to spend extra time
exercising and in centrifuges.  This would I expect let them go to Earth,
even if they had been born on the moon.  Heck, as long as one had to be in
a centrifuge they might well try to take it up to 1.5 or 2 times Earth
gravity, which could have a good effect on any exercise done then.  You're
average Selenite might well be more fit than your average Terran.

And if you had colonists from multiple countries, then even if they all
agreed on a work language (say English, or Japanese, or whatever) their
children would likely create some interesting mixes.  Instead on
confounding people with pig-latin they might work out a strange pidgeon or
creole.  You might quite unintentionally bring up a few generations with
more armchair linguists and conlanger's than back on Earth.

>>It might also be useful as a giant "clock", perhaps they could learn to
>>recognize what parts of Earth the terminator line crosses, and deduce
>>the time from that!  ("The terminator crosses thru Australia, therefore
>>...")
>Even hours could be named after continents...
Hmm, are they well spread out for that?

Though I suppose if you included the oceans...  Pacific, America's,
Atlantic, Europe, Asia/Africa...  Hmm don't have a map handy, but you could
probably easily work out five or six divisions...


Steven,