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Originally Posted by vierasmarius
I disagree slightly with this. There are numerous health effects from long-term zero gravity living, some of which could be addressed by drugs or body modifications. For example, loss of bone mass can be mitigated by frequent exercise and special diets, and recovery can be aided by drugs and various therapies. In short, it's plausible to prevent, or at least minimize, the long-term health risks of living in zero gravity; it's comparitively implausible to efficiently create and direct gravitational waves.
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But spin 'gravity', OTOH, isn't implausible at all, and artificial 'gravity' would not necessarily have to involve actual gravity at all, in superscience terms, any more than nuclear reactors run on phlogiston.
The thing is that humans are fundamentally lazy, exercise is time consuming, and we're evolved, physically and psychologically, for a weighed environment.
If there's a way to get 'gravity', it'll almost certainly be used.