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To: Tax-chick; Silentgypsy

I don’t recall having called people who live on the moon “Lunistas”. I called them Lunarians, after the coinage by James Hogan.

Most writers treat the moon as simply another place to live, without giving consideration to the effects of continuously living in a one-sixth gravity field, and the possible psychological effects of living there.

I would surmise that one of the first things that a serous population of lunar dwellers would do is establish a place that rotates for artificial gravity so that they can prevent bone loss and muscle atrophy, or to recover from those effects.

What they may choose to call themselves I do not know, but I suspect that Lunistas will not be on the table.


256 posted on 02/05/2012 9:54:30 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If "everybody's different" then two of them have to be the same. It's the only way to be different.)
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To: NicknamedBob

“Mechanically inclined—I screw everything up.” Please excuse Lunarian misquote.


259 posted on 02/05/2012 11:14:59 AM PST by Silentgypsy (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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