Olympic Games for Multinational Space Colonies Considered

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow
Will space colonists be able to participate in Olympic Games in the future? It seems unfair that the future space colonists living off planet will not be able to participate in the Olympic Games, thus something must be done to allow them to play. Not long ago, this topic came up at our think tank, which happens to operate online and we dared to ask the question of this brave new future and challenged our minds to boldly go. Because what do we do once we have gone and arrived in these new space colonies?
Now then, due to the cost to transport folks from one planet to another, many sports may be played via tele-conferencing strategies, where the opponents of one team are represented by avatars of the other. With the slight time delay the game might be played in sections, then a super computer can crunch the data to see how each play came out, based on the amount of force and power put in by each athlete. Eventually, the entire game would be analyzed and the winner determined by the AI Super Computer.
By using a supercomputer and specialized software to figure out the amount of energy, agility, speed and merge the two environments, we can determine the winner. Those in a low gravity environment might have a higher handicap for some sports, whereas those on Earth would use the density of the atmosphere, and Earth's gravity as their underlining data components.
This would be fair for all concerned, but would be accepted?
Also realize that there are some sports which could not be played due to the space available, in an orbiting space station, which might be a colony situated around Europa, Titan, or orbiting the Earth, Mars, or another planet in our solar system. For instance it would be difficult to play soccer, or other sports in zero gravity, because as soon as the individual hit the ball it would never come back down. Also consider winter sports may not be feasible because there may not be any water ice or snow.
That doesn't mean that athletes might not ski or snowboard on frozen methane, they might, but it may not be possible to re-create the same slopes, and ski jumps, even if you could adjust for the gravity component and data captured during the event.
And indeed there will be other sports, which will be invented in the future, which cannot be played on Earth, but only on those other planets or moons. Are you beginning to see the challenges ahead for the Olympic Committee. If the human race is to remain intact, the Olympic Games are necessary. But in space, everyone must work together, and maybe there won't be single countries involved in space colonies, maybe many countries will come together for a particular space colony. So which country will these astronauts, space colonists represent?
Will they merely represent the human race, the human race in space?
Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow hopes you've enjoyed today's topic. http://www.WorldThinkTank.net - Have an important subject to discuss, contact Lance. Currently, Mr. Winslow is working on a non-fiction eBook about the Future of Human Sports.
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