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From: raoul@eplunix.UUCP (Nico Garcia)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,alt.sex
Subject: Re: Repost of NASA's "Sex in Space" Report  (LONG)
Summary: Conception in Space
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Date: 19 Mar 90 17:34:48 GMT
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In article <1990Mar19.022336.18266@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>, arie@extro (Markus Arie) writes:
> 
> By the way, the woman in question didn't concieve, and they are planning
> future experiments including a planned birth in space by the year 2000

Ummm, to inject a note of realism here, according to Jerry Lettvin,
physiologist and EE of MIT fame, childbirth in zero-G won't work.
Development of the fetus may be gravitotropic, and the menstrual
cycle is perturbed to say the least. According to him, (this was before
Challenger so I'm not certain if it's still true), every woman in space
since the first Russian woman has had a hysterectomy. It seems that her
period hit her a couple of *hours* after landing, not her normal time,
and the resulting blood loss and shock almost killed her.

So let's be careful with our hack statements out there. Sometimes a smiley
is appropriate. Not everyone out here knows enough about the subject to
tell when our legs are being pulled. Or something else ;-)

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			Nico Garcia
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