[extropy-chat] Are dwarfs better for long duration spaceflight?

[Lifespan Pharma Inc.]

Better yet scout out astronauts from the current youth of vietnam, 
cambodia and china.
Several generations of hardship have naturally selected I'd bet for 
small stature and effecient metabolism.
The worse the living conditions the more natural selection has happened, 
unlike in the developed world where
natural selection has been nearly eliminated for the last 100 years.

Lets wait for the technology to allow the regrowth of lost limbs before 
hacking off the stuff that still works.
However after the technology is there perhaps legs can be cut off and 
the stumps reprogrammed to grow
whatever extremities are required... to order; and the lost limbs can be 
cryopreserved to provide tissues
from which to re-engineer these new extremities.


Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- Rik van Riel <riel at surriel.com> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, ben wrote:
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>>>Chopping the astronauts' legs off seems a better solution. Legs are
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>>>pretty useless in free fall. You could stitch them back on again
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>>when 
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>>>they land. Maybe.
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