They would be strong for a while. Their mussels would start to atrophy and their skelital structures would start to disintigrate. They would need to devote large periods of time to exercizing just to stay healthy. This would have a negative effect on all production. (Low gravity will be a very serious problem for our astronaughts when we go to Mars. A lot of excess mass will be devoted just to excercize equipment.) Another item that would cause the HG race problems is atmospheric preasure. They'd be accilmated to a heavy atmosphere and a LG planet would in most cases have a lower density atmosphere. (Again using Mars... even if Mars had the perfect combination of gasses that we have on Earth the lower atmospheric preasure would still cause Humans serious problems.)utilae wrote:If a race evolved on a high g world, that race would be strong enough to cope with the high g gravity, so upon going to a low g world, that race would be even stronger in the much weaker gravity.
It is actually easier for a low gravity race to adapt to a higher gravity situation. They grow additional mussels and their sketital structure gains mass to support the larger mussles and support the additional weight. (NASA has run several experiments with rats on this and found that not only did the rats grow mussels and bone but their hearts improved and they lived longer under HG conditions. I don't remember the exact gravity/ies that the tests were conducted under.) So at first there would be some aclimation and then the populous would start acting normally... Their children would have no problems at all. << This assumes that the gravity isn't so high that it crushes the LG race in the beginning. >> Also there is the difference in atmospheric preasure. This may be a problem for the LG race.If a race evolved on a low g world, that race would be strong enough to cope with the low g gravity, so upon going to a high g world, that race would strugle under the stronger gravity.
Would these statements be true? They sound logical.
However there is nothing to say that with tech a chemical cocktail can't be concocted and or gravity normalizers developed.
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