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garabik comments on Open thread, Nov. 3 - Nov. 9, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: garabik 04 November 2014 08:34:32AM 7 points [-]

Arthur Clarke's idea of reduced gravity prolonging significantly human life. Sadly, the available evidence does not quite point in this direction. But for a sci-fi story it might be quite OK (e.g. it is discovered that microgravity prevents Alzheimers').

Comment author: polymathwannabe 04 November 2014 12:37:34PM 3 points [-]

Even though it could make for an interesting story, I would be very wary of making up scientific facts that future research may render obsolete.