Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
by nradov on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:41PM
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The major federal government food assistance programs came out of findings in WW2 that many potential recruits were literally malnourished and underweight. They had grown up poor and starving during the Great Depression. Beyond the human tragedy this was a national security issue. Some men were too small and weak to meet military standards.
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Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
by bradarner on Monday December 16, 2024 @06:02PM
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Indeed. Which would seem to indicate that positive growth along the Kardashev scale will lead to hypertrophy not atrophy, as conjectured by the OP. One could hypothesize that growing control of energy is highly correlated with the ability to empower a population to increase in muscle mass. Of course, history would seem to indicate that there can also be a correlation to increased obesity.