an illustration from the 1979 book Toward Distant Suns depicting a bright futuristic city with floating architecture and reduced gravity; several athletes are flying around the scene for fun; they're wearing little mid-century modern jetpacks with no visible fuel or exhaust

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[โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)
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    I don't think these are contact sports. These people are dressed for tennis or running or that level of activity to lower the risk of low gravity bone loss. Vertical sports do bring a risk of leg-to-head collisions, but hopefully not frequent enough to cause CTE.

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