标题: Human reproduction [打印本页] 作者: admin 时间: 2024-7-31 21:19 标题: Human reproduction If we're going to establish a longstanding colony off world, reproduction will be necessary.
A Russian experiment in 2007 showed us that giving birth and conceiving in space is at least possible after a cockroach named Hope birthed 33 baby roaches and one of those roaches later conceived during the mission.
However, cockroaches aren't humans, and a lot of questions remain around how space radiation and low gravity would affect a developing fetus since we've never sent a pregnant person to space, and likely won't for a long time given the potential risks.
Even here on Earth in fully-equipped hospitals, giving birth can be dangerous.
So, both Musk's Martian colony and Bezos' space stations would have to be equipped with healthcare systems identical to those on Earth, if not better, said Adam Watkins, a professor of reproductive biology at the University of Nottingham.
It's not clear to Watkins whether space stations or Mars cities would be a better place for giving birth — they may both come with equal risk. But Watkins thinks it's likely that Musk would achieve off-world human reproduction before Bezos since Musk is already working on establishing his space colony before the end of this century.
"I think establishment of human colonies on Mars is more likely to occur before we have significant human colonies established on large structures in space," he said later in an email to BI.
如果我们要在外星建立一个长期的殖民地，繁殖是必不可少的。
2007 年，俄罗斯的一项实验向我们表明，在太空中生育和受孕至少是可能的，因为一只名叫 Hope 的蟑螂生下了 33 只小蟑螂，其中一只后来在任务期间受孕。
