Reddit reviews Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge

Check this out. According to this, the average human can withstand 5g (5 times normal Earth gravity) before losing consciousness. As far as living within that, I have no idea.

I know that they have bred chickens in higher gravity situations, and they developed differently to meet the changes in gravity. Sorry for the Amazon link, but it was the only link I could find at the moment.

They tried this with chickens. They were raised in a centrifuge at two gees, and came out as these "great mambo chickens" that stomped around like little dinosaurs.

Animal bodies adapt to stress. You build both muscle and bone in response to exercise, and lose them in zero gee or hospital bed rest because you are not using them. A centrifuge room above one gee would build your body faster.

Maybe ... Maybe not.

Great Mambo Chicken and The Transhuman Condition is pretty awesome.

Apparently recommended reading for supporting legal documents, too.

It's been decades since I have read it, but this and many other concepts that the Next Generation used were in the book "The Great Mambo Chicken and the transhuman condition

If memory serves, if the shell was thin and there was the ability to replicate one material for another, a planet could be theoretically be inverted. This was assuming a lot, but the book went into detail of surface area vs volume on subjects like this as well as restructuring the brain to be more tree like. Good stuff for a geek.

Check out Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge by Ed Regis. Despite the title, which I rather like, it is written by a well respected science writer. The main topic is what the author calls "post biological man." Taken with a grain of salt and a sense of humor it is a fascinating book. Here's the Publisher's Weekly review:

> Author of the delightful Who Got Einstein's Office? , Regis here presents a hilarious but nevertheless sympathetic look at practitioners of "fin-de-siecle hubristic mania." These are the scientific visionaries who are plotting "post-biological man," scheming to build giant space colony/stations to orbit around the Earth, use microscopic robots (nanotechnology) to resurrect humans frozen in liquid nitrogen, raise chickens in higher gravity fields and project human minds via energy beams to distant galaxies. Readers learn about artificial life, bioinfomatic bumblebees, human minds instilled in "bush robots" and how to enclose the Sun within a man-made sphere. In the future everything will be possible and humans will be able to redesign themselves and the universe to meet higher technical standards than mere nature has achieved. This is a wonderful romp on the cutting edge of science.

You ought to read Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition. It's a great read and a far better introduction to transhumanism than that webpage.

Chickens exposed to 2x Earth's gravity for significant periods of time (as described in Great Mambo Chicken) (and pretty much from birth) developed significantly more muscle mass. Though I can't speak specifically to the effects on people, it would seem that too little gravity can have deleterious effects on mammals, but reasonable increases in gravity don't cause the same degree of negative consequences.

Go get inspiration from "Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition," the chapter about "Wizard" the mad tunneler. The author's family let him sink a shaft from their kids' bedroom closet to link up to his extensive neighborhood tunnel warren.