MINSKY%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA (12/20/83)
I wonder if anything can be done about NASA and the press in general, re. the gravity-calcium-"I guess Man just isn't going to be able to exist in space" syndrome. Presumably, all this goes away with a centrifigual-tethered crew-quarters attached to any space station or mission. The public should be informed that although zero-G is promising, it isn't the end of the space age if people are not perfectly suited to it. Hmmm. Well, has any poor astronaut been made to spend several months in some slowly rotating environment? It would serve me right if, somehow, there turned out to be bad effects from mild-to-moderate Coriolis forces. Seems unlikely, but. . .