Reality Check 2
The first Moon Colonists will only stay on the Moon for one month because of surface gravity difference between Earth and the Moon.
Earth’s gravity is 9.807 m/s²
Moon’s gravity is 1.62 m/s²
That is about 17 percent of Earth’s gravity, which means the Moon has zero gravity.
Gravity helps maintain the systemic circulation throughout the human body, strengthen muscles and skeleton structure. Being weightless is equivalent to being restricted to bed because of a long-term medical problem or sitting all day. Weightlessness in space is called space sickness, which affects every aspect of the human body. After a short time, like a month on the Moon, the colonist’ should return to normal after a few days back on Earth.
Long-term weightlessness, as in years, could cause permanent damage. Muscles become atrophied from antigravity, calcium imbalance causes Osteoporosis and cardiovascular problems affects the heart, which affects major organs like the brain.
Astronauts exercise while in space to help overcome some of these problems, but full recovery only comes once the colonists return to Earth and normal surface gravity.
Reality Check: Science fiction authors rarely consider gravity between planets. Characters easily travel from one world to the other. Science fiction authors use science as a base, then bend the rules to make the story more interesting.
Science fiction fans are used to reading and watching shows where spaceships and alien planets seemingly all have the same gravity, I didn’t mention surface gravity in my story. Just in case one of my characters wants to return to Earth even after a long time away.
If authors adhered to the reality of science, there would not be a genre called science fiction. Even though science fiction fans know the truth of science, they suspend reality and inter a world where science is fiction where anything is possible.
Here is the beginning of my third book, Jessica’s Mission, explaining the colonists’ journey to their new home world: It was to be Earth’s greatest achievement, establishing the first galactic colony in the Pegasus Constellation. Using folded space technology, World Space Coalition sent three spaceships, WSC Eagle, WSC Hawk, and WSC Falcon, to transport a total of 2,035 settlers to their new home planet, Akiane. More ships were scheduled to bring a continual supply of goods to help support the settlers until they were well established on their new planet.
People of Akiane Trilogy is available on Amazon in paper back, ebook or Prime Reads.
