Overview
Due to major advances in technology over the past century, the frontier of space has opened up to the human species. To take advantage of the resources that space has to offer, colonization is a possible solution. However, not everywhere in the universe has the same gravitational field as we do on Earth. For our species to persist in the future, reproduction must take place. This includes conception, pregnancy, and birth.
Pregnancy In Space
Pregnancy in zero gravity faces many unique challenges. Some of them academic, some moral.
(8) In 2008, a physics student, Hamilton Lucas, at the University of Utah outlined many of these dillemmas.
(9) In 2006, Transterrestial Musings created a panel comprised of Laura Woodmansee, Vanna Bonta, and Dr. James Logan. This panel addressed many of the questions surrounding conception and pregnancy in space.
(10) In 2006, Laura Woodmansee published a book titled "Sex In Space". A well known journalist and author, Laura Woodmansee describes many of the obstacles of zero-gravity sex and pregnancy. In Chapter 3, "Making space babies: conception,pregnancy and birth", Ms. Woodmansee addresses issues that many have not thought of.
(11) In 1995, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore from UCSF published an article in Sociology Perspectives titled, "INSCRIBING BODIES, INSCRIBING THE FUTURE: Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in Outer Space" that (from abstract:) examines the ways in which gender, sex, and reproduction in the U.S. space program are represented as social, cultural, and scientific problems.
1) http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=702
2) http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22639919-30417,00.html
3) http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_sexinspace_060804.html
4) http://www.senescence.info/causes.html
5) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002cosp...34E3150R
6) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14002908/
7) http://home.bway.net/rjnoonan/humans_in_space/sex.html
8) http://www.physics.utah.edu/~u0456652/
9) http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/007423.html
10) http://books.google.com/books?idYt7MAAAACAAJ&dqinauthor:Laura+inauthor:S+inauthor:Woodmansee
11) Inscribing Bodies, Inscribing the Future: Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in Outer Space
Monica J. Casper, Lisa Jean Moore
Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 311-333
View Abstract at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0731-1214(199522)38%3A2%3C311%3AIBITFG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I#abstract
Due to major advances in technology over the past century, the frontier of space has opened up to the human species. To take advantage of the resources that space has to offer, colonization is a possible solution. However, not everywhere in the universe has the same gravitational field as we do on Earth. For our species to persist in the future, reproduction must take place. This includes conception, pregnancy, and birth.
Pregnancy In Space
Pregnancy in zero gravity faces many unique challenges. Some of them academic, some moral.
(8) In 2008, a physics student, Hamilton Lucas, at the University of Utah outlined many of these dillemmas.
(9) In 2006, Transterrestial Musings created a panel comprised of Laura Woodmansee, Vanna Bonta, and Dr. James Logan. This panel addressed many of the questions surrounding conception and pregnancy in space.
(10) In 2006, Laura Woodmansee published a book titled "Sex In Space". A well known journalist and author, Laura Woodmansee describes many of the obstacles of zero-gravity sex and pregnancy. In Chapter 3, "Making space babies: conception,pregnancy and birth", Ms. Woodmansee addresses issues that many have not thought of.
(11) In 1995, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore from UCSF published an article in Sociology Perspectives titled, "INSCRIBING BODIES, INSCRIBING THE FUTURE: Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in Outer Space" that (from abstract:) examines the ways in which gender, sex, and reproduction in the U.S. space program are represented as social, cultural, and scientific problems.
1) http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=702
2) http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22639919-30417,00.html
3) http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_sexinspace_060804.html
4) http://www.senescence.info/causes.html
5) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002cosp...34E3150R
6) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14002908/
7) http://home.bway.net/rjnoonan/humans_in_space/sex.html
8) http://www.physics.utah.edu/~u0456652/
9) http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/007423.html
10) http://books.google.com/books?idYt7MAAAACAAJ&dqinauthor:Laura+inauthor:S+inauthor:Woodmansee
11) Inscribing Bodies, Inscribing the Future: Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in Outer Space
Monica J. Casper, Lisa Jean Moore
Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 311-333
View Abstract at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0731-1214(199522)38%3A2%3C311%3AIBITFG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I#abstract
‘’’Naturbia’’’ (trademark pending) is the integration of nature with urban form. Developed by Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas Kvan from research in intensive urban forms in Hong Kong, the concept has been applied in Sydney and Malaysia. The approach brings together urban agriculture and horticulture with high density mixed use urban living. Using all surfaces of the built form, activities normally engaged in nature on ground surfaces, such as cultivation and harvesting of plants, hiking and recreation, can be enjoyed on the surfaces of built forms. Supporting community gardens, commercial production or tended natural growth, the urban environment becomes a natural environment. Plant life mitigates and tempers the environment, reducing heat island effects and contributes to social engagement and communal well being. The intensification of land use allows the development of an alternative to the extremes of suburban spawl and high rise urban concentrations. Using these concepts, densities of up to 3,000 people per hectare can be sustained. Originally applied in 2005 to a design concept in Kwu Tung, Hong Kong, the idea has gained popularity elsewhere. Naturban living is a real alternative to motorway commuting or sterile city streets.
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DR. IMANKALYAN LAHIRI
Dr. Imankalyan Lahiri is a Lecturer in International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His area of Specialization is Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia's Foreign Policy. He taught at different Universities in West Bengal as invitee Lecturer. He received Chicago Centenary Scholarship from Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math. He published papers and books on Mahathir bin Mohammad, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia. He did his PhD. from Jadavpur University, India. He was also trained as a Distance Educator.He write at times in Different newspapers and journals.He also teaches at Alipore Central Correctional Home, Kolkata, India to a life convict. He is the General Secretary of a Youth forum Eastern Institute of Social Sciences and Culture.He organized many national and International Seminars and Conferences.Recently he has been selected by the US Department of State as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the Walker Institute for Area and International Studies, University of South Carolina, United States of America.
Dr. Imankalyan Lahiri is a Lecturer in International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His area of Specialization is Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia's Foreign Policy. He taught at different Universities in West Bengal as invitee Lecturer. He received Chicago Centenary Scholarship from Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math. He published papers and books on Mahathir bin Mohammad, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia. He did his PhD. from Jadavpur University, India. He was also trained as a Distance Educator.He write at times in Different newspapers and journals.He also teaches at Alipore Central Correctional Home, Kolkata, India to a life convict. He is the General Secretary of a Youth forum Eastern Institute of Social Sciences and Culture.He organized many national and International Seminars and Conferences.Recently he has been selected by the US Department of State as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the Walker Institute for Area and International Studies, University of South Carolina, United States of America.