Elon Musk

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I may have read that book on Kindle but I don't have it anymore. It's a very common scifi trope. The recent TV series The Expanse does a pretty good treatment of it.

I just try to imagine if I were born in low gravity and had major physical issues that would prevent me from ever living on Earth or a space habitat with anything close to Earth gravity. I think I would be supremely pissed at my parents. Imagine seeing pictures and video of mountains, forests and beaches on Earth - and knowing they were forever off-limits to you because your parents made the irresponsible decision to reproduce in low gravity without knowing what the consequences would be? Or worse, they did know and went ahead anyway?

Anyway, I suspect the real-world consequences might be a lot worse than is typically imagined in scifi. I'm afraid there might be malformations which would render one an invalid even in the gravity they were born in - if they could survive at all. Our bodies were just not designed to develop in such low gravity and there is no telling the consequences.