I noticed that there is no way to see the age of the people in the mars simulation project, is this a variable that's missing? Also I noticed that while people die, noone are born again... Is the gravity too low to deliver babies? :-)
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Thanks for your feedback. The simulation doesn't currently keep track of people's ages or the effects of aging. We also haven't simulated reproduction and births yet. The population is replenished to some degree from new yearly immigrants from Earth, but that's it at the moment.
It's hard to say at this point what the physiological effects of the Martian gravity (~.3G) will have on children born there. Kim Stanley Robinson proposed in his fiction books that they would be very tall and thin but otherwise healthy. They would have difficulty visiting the higher-gravity Earth, however.
i think as an inital implementation that it would be best just to have simple reproduction and stats perhaps balanced from both planets. Will also require perhaps new modules to cater for young mars citizens
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I noticed that there is no way to see the age of the people in the mars simulation project, is this a variable that's missing? Also I noticed that while people die, noone are born again... Is the gravity too low to deliver babies? :-)
Hello Khalid,
Thanks for your feedback. The simulation doesn't currently keep track of people's ages or the effects of aging. We also haven't simulated reproduction and births yet. The population is replenished to some degree from new yearly immigrants from Earth, but that's it at the moment.
This is something we've been discussing for some time and I'm hoping we can develop it in the simulation this year. We have some of the ideas for this posted on the project wiki here: http://mars-sim.wiki.sourceforge.net/development_idea_lifecycle
It's hard to say at this point what the physiological effects of the Martian gravity (~.3G) will have on children born there. Kim Stanley Robinson proposed in his fiction books that they would be very tall and thin but otherwise healthy. They would have difficulty visiting the higher-gravity Earth, however.
Take care,
Scott Davis
Mars Simulation Project
http://mars-sim.sourceforge.net
scud1@users.sourceforge.net
i think as an inital implementation that it would be best just to have simple reproduction and stats perhaps balanced from both planets. Will also require perhaps new modules to cater for young mars citizens