Looking for Jesus according to Matthew

[JLG]

Revelation 16:21

And

καὶ (kai)

Conjunction

Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.


huge

μεγάλη (megalē)

Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular

Strong's 3173: Large, great, in the widest sense.


hailstones,

χάλαζα (chalaza)

Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular

Strong's 5464: Hail. Probably from chalao; hail.


about

ὡς (hōs)

Adverb

Strong's 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.


a hundred pounds [each],

ταλαντιαία (talantiaia)

Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular

Strong's 5006: A talent in weight. From talanton; talent-like in weight.


rained down

καταβαίνει (katabainei)

Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular

Strong's 2597: To go down, come down, either from the sky or from higher land, descend. From kata and the base of basis; to descend.


on

ἐπὶ (epi)

Preposition

Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.


[them]

ἀνθρώπους (anthrōpous)

Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural

Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.


from

ἐκ (ek)

Preposition

Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.


above.

οὐρανοῦ (ouranou)

Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular

Strong's 3772: Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.


And

καὶ (kai)

Conjunction

Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.


men

ἄνθρωποι (anthrōpoi)

Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural

Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.


cursed

ἐβλασφήμησαν (eblasphēmēsan)

Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural

Strong's 987: From blasphemos; to vilify; specially, to speak impiously.


God

Θεὸν (Theon)

Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular

Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.


for

ἐκ (ek)

Preposition

Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.


the

τῆς (tēs)

Article - Genitive Feminine Singular

Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.


plague

πληγῆς (plēgēs)

Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular

Strong's 4127: A blow, stripe, wound; an affliction, plague. From plesso; a stroke; by implication, a wound; figuratively, a calamity.


of

τῆς (tēs)

Article - Genitive Feminine Singular

Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.


hail,

χαλάζης (chalazēs)

Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular

Strong's 5464: Hail. Probably from chalao; hail.


because

ὅτι (hoti)

Conjunction

Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.


[it]

πληγὴ (plēgē)

Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular

Strong's 4127: A blow, stripe, wound; an affliction, plague. From plesso; a stroke; by implication, a wound; figuratively, a calamity.


was

ἐστὶν (estin)

Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular

Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.


so horrendous.

μεγάλη (megalē)

Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular

Strong's 3173: Large, great, in the widest sense.

 

[JLG]

- God’s wrath!

- Righteous are You, O Holy One!

- You have given them blood to drink!

- Lord God Almighty!

- Tthe name of God!

- Give Him glory!

- Curse the God of heaven!

- God the Almighty!

- God!

- God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath!

- Men cursed God!

 

[Garee]

- What an incredible duo!

- We are told about the Lamb with the hundred forty and four thousand on Mount Zion!

- And see that: the 144,000 have Jesus’ name and Yah.weh’s name on their foreheads!

- Jesus will reign with the hundred forty and four thousand according to the supreme authority, His Father Yah.weh!

- And the hundred forty and four thousand are the firstfruits of both God and the Lamb!

- A perfect duo!

- Impossible to find such harmony within a duo!

- And these hundred forty and four thousand are before the throne of God!

- Who must be feared? Yah.weh!

- Who receives glory? Yah.weh!

- Who must be worshiped? Yah.weh!

I would think impossible without the two, the dynamic dual. The temporal dying Son of man Jesus outwardly demonstrating the power of the invisible Father that works in his bride pictured in a parable found in Revelation12.

Revelation 12:1-2 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman (chaste virgin bride of Christ) clothed with the sun, and the moon under her (the bride the mother of all believers) feet, and upon her(bride) head a crown of twelve stars:And she being with child cried, travailing in birth,( like Paul ) and pained to be delivered.(Timothy the chaste virgin

The 144,000 a metaphor used in parables to represent a unknow.

No need to know we have prophecy till the end of time .Satan the king of lying signs to wonder after as if true prophecy is very active today

No signs to wonder, wonder, wonder after as if prophecy was given. A evil generation natural unconverted mankind does seek after a sign before they will believe

Galatians 4:19;My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

Galatians 4:26;But Jerusalem (the bride) which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

 

[JLG]

I would think impossible without the two, the dynamic dual. The temporal dying Son of man Jesus outwardly demonstrating the power of the invisible Father that works in his bride pictured in a parable found in Revelation12.

Revelation 12:1-2 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman (chaste virgin bride of Christ) clothed with the sun, and the moon under her (the bride the mother of all believers) feet, and upon her(bride) head a crown of twelve stars:And she being with child cried, travailing in birth,( like Paul ) and pained to be delivered.(Timothy the chaste virgin

The 144,000 a metaphor used in parables to represent a unknow.

No need to know we have prophecy till the end of time .Satan the king of lying signs to wonder after as if true prophecy is very active today

No signs to wonder, wonder, wonder after as if prophecy was given. A evil generation natural unconverted mankind does seek after a sign before they will believe

Galatians 4:19;My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

Galatians 4:26;But Jerusalem (the bride) which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

- How is it possible to see a metaphor?

- We are told about two specific groups, a limited number and the other unlimited!

- Both groups will play a different part and have a different resurrection!

 

[Garee]

- How is it possible to see a metaphor?

- We are told about two specific groups, a limited number and the other unlimited!

- Both groups will play a different part and have a different resurrection!

How is it not possible seeing without parables the signified prophecy Christ spoke not ..Called hidden Manna in 2:17 to represent our daily bread

Inspired and signified. Signified, uses as a sign the temporal historical things seen compared or mixed with eternal unseen things of Christ (Faith)the opening interpretation instruction

Revelation 11 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Revelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna,(daily bread) and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

 

[JLG]

- Yah.weh and Jesus in the book of Revelation!

Revelation 17:6

6 I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.

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Revelation 17:14

14 They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”

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Revelation 17:17

17 For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by uniting to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.


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- Witnesses for Jesus!

- The Lamb!

- The Lamb!

- He is Lord of lords and King of kings!

- God!

- The words of God!

 

[JLG]

- Yah.weh and Jesus in the book of Revelation!

Revelation 18:5


5 For her sins are piled up to heaven,

and God has remembered her iniquities.

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Revelation 18:8


8 Therefore her plagues will come in one day—

death and grief and famine—

and she will be consumed by fire,

for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

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Revelation 18:20


20 Rejoice over her, O heaven,

O saints and apostles and prophets,

because God has pronounced for you

His judgment against her.

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- God!

- The Lord God

- God!

 

[JLG]

- Yah.weh and Jesus in the book of Revelation!


Revelation 19:1-3


1 After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting:

“Hallelujah!

Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!

2 For His judgments are true and just.

He has judged the great prostitute

who corrupted the earth with her immorality.

He has avenged the blood of His servants

that was poured out by her hand.”

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Revelation 19:4


4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying:

“Amen, Hallelujah!”

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Revelation 19:5


5 Then a voice came from the throne, saying:

“Praise our God,

all you who serve Him,

and those who fear Him,

small and great alike!”

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Revelation 19:6,7


6And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out:

“Hallelujah!

For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

7 Let us rejoice and be glad

and give Him the glory.

For the marriage of the Lamb has come,

and His bride has made herself ready.

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Revelation 19:9-21

9 Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

10 So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

11 Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.

12 He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows.

13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God.

14The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses.

15 And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

16 And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh:

KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,

19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies assembled to wage war against the One seated on the horse, and against His army.


21 And the rest were killed with the sword that proceeded from the mouth of the One seated on the horse.

And all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

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- Our God!

- And worshiped God!

- Our God!

- The Lord our God the Almighty!

- The marriage of the Lamb!

- The marriage supper of the Lamb!

- The true words of God!

- The testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus!

- Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war!

- His name is The Word of God!

- He will rule them with an iron scepter!

- The fury of the wrath of God the Almighty!

- KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!

- The great supper of God!

- The One seated on the horse!

- The sword that proceeded from the mouth of the One seated on the horse!

 

[JLG]

Revelation 20:


1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.

2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

3And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.

4Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image, and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

6Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

11Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.

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- An angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain!

- For their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God!

- With Christ!

- Priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years!

- A great white throne and the One seated on it!

- As usual, everything is clear!

 

[JLG]

Revelation 21:

2 I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying:

“Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man,

and He will dwell with them.

They will be His people,

and God Himself will be with them as their God.

4 ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’

and there will be no more death

or mourning or crying or pain,

for the former things have passed away.”

5 And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”

6 And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.

7 The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.

9 Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

11shining with the glory of God.

14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

22 But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.

27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

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- From God!

- The dwelling place of God!

- God Himself!

- Their God!

- The One seated on the throne!

- The Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End!

- His God!

- The wife of the Lamb!

- From God!

- The glory of God!

- Of the Lamb!

- The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb!

- The glory of God!

- The Lamb!

- The Lamb’s Book of Life!

- As usual, everything is clear!

 

[JLG]

Revelation 22

1 Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

3 No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him.

4 They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.

5 There will be no more night in the city, and they will have no need for the light of a lamp or of the sun. For the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.

6 Then the angel said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel to show His servants what must soon take place.”

7 “Behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of prophecy in this book.”

9 But he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!”

12 “Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done.

13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”

18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.

19 And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book.

20 He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints.

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- The throne of God and of the Lamb!

- The throne of God and of the Lamb!

- His servants will worship Him!

- His face, and His name will be on their foreheads!

- The Lord God!

- The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets!

- Worship God!

- I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End!

- I, Jesus, I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star!

- God!

- God!

- Come, Lord Jesus!

- The grace of the Lord Jesus!

- As usual, we get the duo between Yah.weh and Jesus!

- Everyone plays his part!

 

[JLG]

1)

Robert Bergh said:

I'm not going to be anything like a hero to a scoundrel like you, that's for sure. You can shut your ass and ignore me. But you're not even that smart, I know a lot more than you. AND what we both know we don't agree on. since you believe in lies that not ONE SINGLE person has proven to date. But what kind of gods does the Bible talk about? The sea god, the sun god. The money god, the weather gods? You must know that. Man has so many different gods, to believe that one of the 10 commandments says you can only have ONE god. The TV gods? So which one of them is yours? Is your god Red or Blue? Or an evil satan? Is this him your god?

 

[JLG]

2)

- My answer: (an interview with French astrophysicist Francis Rocard on the conquest of Mars)

When will we see manned missions to Mars?

Francis Rocard: The time constant is approximately fifty years, typically between 2050 and 2060. The difficulty compared to an Apollo-type mission is much greater. It takes three days to go to the moon and 200 to go to Mars. Stays can be very long. As we can see in the film "The Martian," the problem is that a month doesn't last 30 days, but 500 days. However, those who have been to the moon didn't stay more than three or four days, so the complexity is much greater. Apollo cost 150 billion, while humans on Mars should cost 500, 600, or even 1 trillion. NASA's budget increased tenfold between Kennedy's 1961 speech and its peak in 1965 to prepare for the Apollo mission. This kind of situation cannot possibly happen again today, and the U.S. Congress would never agree to it. It's necessary to spread out spending over time to develop a manned mission.

 

[JLG]

3)

"A human-habitable Mars is science fiction."

What resources would be deployed for such a mission?

Francis Rocard: A National Research Council report listed eleven vehicles needed for this mission. NASA is currently developing two. Each will cost $20 to $40 billion and will have a very specific objective. It also requires what the Americans call a "passway," an indirect exploration path between Earth and Mars. It may require going via an asteroid or learning how to build lunar bases, something no one has done yet. However, it will be necessary to learn how to build a Martian base. There are also technological hurdles to overcome. It's quite uncertain. For example, we may be led to develop space nuclear power, which is extremely efficient but also presents risks in terms of pollution of the Earth if the rocket explodes.

 

[JLG]

4)

Mars habitable by humans: reality or pure fiction?

Francis Rocard: Currently, and for a long time to come, it's science fiction. It's a theoretical subject, not uninteresting, in which eminent American planetary scientists have taken an interest, but these projects would cost trillions, and it would take several centuries to create an effective system. I can't imagine for a second a politician in the White House launching a project spread over a century or two. Thinking that we're going to be able to modify a planet's climate is a sorcerer's apprentice's game. We have to create a greenhouse effect on Mars that isn't breathable for humans. What if a greenhouse gas machine breaks down? Like the film "The Martian," there will just be a slightly longer exploration than for the Moon, but it's not a refuge from which to leave Earth if we experience survival problems.

 

[JLG]

Elon Musk has pledged to settle Mars. A prize-winning book offers a reality check​

The promise of starting life anew on Mars may appear alluring, even feasible, as the climate crisis intensifies and space and rocket technology advances.

But the reality would be dreadful, according to one book that argues that Elon Musk’s intention to settle the red planet within the next 30 years is doomed to failure.

Written by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, “A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?” won the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize and was published in November 2023.

The husband-and-wife authors investigate what life would actually be like in the unforgiving environment of the red planet and clear up any misconceptions about what it might involve.

Kelly Weinersmith, a biologist and an adjunct assistant professor at Rice University in Houston, and, Zach Weinersmith, a cartoonist, delve into all sorts of questions that humans would face if we became a multiplanetary species. How would we build space farms to feed everyone? What about giving birth to babies and raising kids? Would settling Mars unleash a new space race?

Initially enthusiastic about the prospect of humans living on Mars, the authors said their research turned them into space settlement skeptics. “Leaving a 2 (degree Celsius) warmer Earth for Mars would be like leaving a messy room so you can live in a toxic waste dump,” they wrote in the book’s introduction.

 

[JLG]

CNN: Why did you want to write this book?

Kelly Weinersmith: We’re geeks. We were pretty excited about space settlement happening. We had written a book called “Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything,” and two of the emerging technologies we talked about in that book were cheaper access to space and asteroid mining. Between those two technologies, we thought, we can either now ship up all the equipment we need to keep humans alive in space, or we can use space resources to build space settlements. So even though people have been saying for decades that this is coming soon, we thought maybe now it finally is coming.

CNN: But that’s not what you concluded after researching and writing the book?

KW: The more we got into it — by year two out of the four-year research process, we were like, OK, there’s a lot of stuff we don’t know that we still need to figure out. And if we do this soon, it could be an ethical catastrophe.

 

[JLG]

CNN: Can humans settle Mars in the near term?

KW: Musk is saying that in the next 30 years, we’re going to have a million people on Mars. No way that you could scale up to a million people on Mars without something catastrophic happening, either in terms of it turns out we can’t have babies up there, and moms and babies are dying or getting cancer.

If you want to do this, it’s got to be the slow work of generations to build up to a point where we could be self-sustaining on Mars.

It’s such a harsh environment requiring complicated equipment to keep you alive, and I just can’t see that happening on Mars in the near term.

 

[JLG]

CNN: What is achievable then in our current lifetime?

KW: Lots of research, and that’s exciting, I think. I would love to see, for example, a research station on the moon where we have rodent colonies, and we see how they do when they go through a couple generations. Maybe in our lifetime, we’ll see people land on Mars, do some exploration and come home, that could happen, but I don’t think we’re going to have babies on Mars.

 

[JLG]

CNN: You highlight reproduction as one of the major challenges. Why’s that?

KW: One of the places we started was biology and medical stuff. That was our first eye-opening moment. I think we had assumed the 50 years of research we had gotten from astronauts in the space stations orbiting Earth had told us everything we needed to know about how humans respond in gravity regimes unlike Earth’s, and how humans respond to space radiation.

But it turns out that the astronauts (there) are protected by the magnetosphere (a protective bubble surrounding Earth’s atmosphere), and we do know that being in free fall, which is essentially like experiencing zero gravity, is predictably bad for bones, for muscles. That microgravity explains why vision tends to degrade over time, and being in space could result in cognitive declines long-term.

The longest stay in space has been less than a year and a half, and astronauts predictably experience something like 1% bone loss in their hips every month. Even if that goes down to just 0.1% every month on Mars (where gravity is 38% of Earth’s surface gravity), you could imagine that being really bad, for example, when labor kicks in and you’ve got to hope that your hips are strong enough to handle it. We were just surprised by how many problems we thought we had a handle on. But it turns out that we have very little relevant data for how adults will do, let alone how having babies would work out.

Zach Weinersmith: There needs to be a lot more research in reproduction, simply because it’s a big, open question. It could be completely benign for all we know — we would be surprised by that, but there should be a lot more research on that. Prima facie, the assumption should be that (babies) are going to have a higher-than-normal rate of abnormalities that have to be dealt with without any of the kind of (medical) care we take for granted on Earth.