Topic: Vacuum Adaption vs Space Adaption

[markc]

Can someone explain the difference to me? And when you would use one vs the other.
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[GrumpyOldFart]

Space Adaptation appears to be concerned with microgravity and/or free fall, in other words it would still apply in a space station with plenty of air.

Vacuum Adaptation deals with the pressure differential, so it would apply even in a vacuum chamber in full gravity.

My 2 coppers, I'm not official.

[Maelstrom]

My 2 coppers, I'm not official.

Wouldn't that be 2 milli-credits? 

[GrumpyOldFart]

You're awfully smart aleck for someone who's trying to avoid getting smacked in the head with a space station.

 

[Usdrothek]

Space adaption would be tolerance to freefall conditions: Bones don't leach calcium, muscles don't atrophy, tissue drainage isn't effected, immune cell circulation/surveillence isn't comprimised. Freefall sickness/ the need for a visual horizon is banished.

vaccuum adaption: Tolerance to a lack of pressure (perhaps internally strengthend cell/organ membranes. It would imply a tolerence to cold as well. Also some form of contained breathing, so your lungs/gills/gas transport system doesn't rupture.

[Maelstrom]

You're awfully smart aleck for someone who's trying to avoid getting smacked in the head with a space station.

 

It's the darn bag o' icy shrapnel of death that's doing that more than my snarky remarks. 

[NicholasHMCaldwell]

Can someone explain the difference to me? And when you would use one vs the other.
Page 98 and 99 in H:SF
MDC

Yup as others have indicated, Space Adaptation is about being unaffected by the medical issues of low and micro-gravity. Vacuum Adaptation is about being able to survive without pressure and indeed air.

Best wishes,
Nicholas