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[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by dcarson

One thing that's never had good research done on is how much G do you need to get rid of the 0G problems. Will a tenth do?

Excellent question. Your guess is just as good as anyone else's, including the space medics, because we literally have almost no data on which to make an evaluation.

We have some fairly extensive data on the effects of free fall (on long term, those effects are very bad, short term not so much), with the experiences of Skylab, Mir, the ISS, Gemini and Apollo, etc.

OTOH, when it comes to the effects of gravity when present but not at 1G, we have a tiny sampliing of short-term data at 1/6 G, from the Apollo missions, and...well, that's pretty much all we have. That's not enough data to do anything other than speculate (or more honestly, wild-ass guess).

This is one of the huge elephants in the room in discussions of human activities off Earth, by the way.