From: Vanessa Novaeris (novaeris@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 07:54:00 MDT
spike wrote:
<<If we we able to shoehorn humans down to about 20 kg,
and 1 meter height without excessive loss of intelligence,
then the scale of everything goes down significantly. Recall
the mass of the pressure vessel goes down as the cube of the
linear dimension. After a successful colony is extablished with shoehorned
humans, they can bootstrap back up to the more customary
80 kg, 2 meter scale.>>
Once "shoehorned" why would it be necessary to "bootstrap"? I mean,
would there be any critical reason to return to larger bodies? The
shrinky-dink humans wouldn't have any negative psychological issues with their
comparatively smaller bodies because they would never know (or be used to)
anything else. It might be really simple & I just missed it, but why bother
returning to a bigger, clumsier, more wasteful body type?
vanessa novaeris
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