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Your Bones in Space
Title: Your Bones in Space
Category: Science & Technology
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Your Bones in Space
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Your Bones in Space ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCE
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Hypogravitational Osteoporosis: A review of literature.
By Lambert Titus Parker. May 19 1987. (GEnie Spaceport)
Osteoporosis: a condition characterized by an absolute decrease in the
amount of bone present to a level below which it is capable of maintaining
the structural integrity of the skeleton.
To state the obvious, Human beings have evolved under Earth's gravity
'1G'. Our musculoskeleton system have developed to help us navigate in
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structures are built the problem will become academic. For completeness
sake: Dr. Graveline, at the School of Aerospace Medicine, raised a litter
of mice on a animal centrifuge simulating 2G and compared them with a
litter mates raised in 1G. 'They were Herculean in their build, and unusually
strong....' reported Dr.Graveline. Also X-ray studies showed the 2G mice
to have a skeletal density to be far greater than their 1G litter mates.
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