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roxyamused t1_j76yf20 wrote

Reply to comment by HarkansawJack in Newly-discovered Earth-mass exoplanet — named Wolf 1069 b — may provide durable habitable conditions across a wide area of its dayside by marketrent

I think that would cause a lot of health issues. Our bodies evolved with this gravity and atmospheric pressures. It might be nice for an afternoon though.

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Seared_Beans t1_j7770js wrote

More health issues than we can quantify, that's why a huge part of manned spaceflight has been relentlessly studying the effects of reduced G's on the human body. To say the least, EVERYTHING starts to go south after just months in a reduced g environment, we don't know how bad it will get or how lethal it can be upwards of several years

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