You’ve no doubt heard of the mile high club, or where adventurous couples might liaise in the airplane lavatory for a lover's triste. But have you heard of the 65-mile high club… or beyond? Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00You've no doubt heard of the Mile High Club, or where adventurous couples might liaise
00:03in an airplane lavatory for a lover's tryst.
00:06But have you heard of the 65 Mile High Club?
00:08Or beyond?
00:09Well, bioanalytical technology professor David Cullen writes for The Conversation, that could
00:14be a new phenomenon we have yet to contend with, as space tourism becomes a thing.
00:18At the moment, companies like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are only taking people
00:22short distances into space, meaning not a lot of time or privacy for Hanky Panky.
00:27But there are already passenger trips booked for the moon, meaning days worth of transit
00:31and hundreds of thousands of miles spent in the weightlessness of space.
00:35And a zero-g space capsule is no doubt far more enticing than, say, one of these.
00:39So what's the issue?
00:40Well, according to Professor Cullen, the problems could arise if a child is conceived during
00:44what could be weeks spent in space.
00:47Space has profound effects on the human body, from increased radiation exposure to the destruction
00:52of red blood cells to bone degradation and more.
00:55There have been limited tests using mice embryos to see what might happen if conception
00:58occurs in space, and the results have included changes in viability of the fetus to ectopic
01:03pregnancies, which Cullen says might not only result in loss of life, but it could also
01:07lead to serious lawsuits if not handled properly.