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Re:Chang'e 6 lunar sample return mission returns with sample... by ta1243 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @01:08PM (#40790965)
Well there's a world of difference between micro-gravity (where there have been problems with nice) and low gravity like on the moon (where there's been no experiments)

If you did have viable babies in low (not zero) gravity situations though, would you in fact be starting a new species.

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Re:Chang'e 6 lunar sample return mission returns with sample... by gus_massa on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @02:19PM (#40791738)
It's not clear when a new specie is different from the previous one, but you probably need:

* Like 100.000 years, probably more. (From the split of us from chimps 5.000.000 I counted like 30 species in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution , but the number depends a lot on who count them.)

* Isolate the populations so they can't interbreed (first because they can't meet and later becuse the dna is incompatible)

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