 What is the Terran opinion of spacemen?
Rootless and footloose, a man in space can't help but dream of coming home. "No, but my father—" "Your parents left Terra during the Second Colonization of Cassiopeia II, didn't they?" He was uncomfortable; Wyandotte seemed to know all about him. Short of Gravitational conditioning, there is nothing to stop you from going to Terra." Your body is conditioned to a normal state of free fall, or at best to a state of acceleration." That is why all spacemen carry PON, paraoxylnebutal, with them. It helps suppress certain physiological reactions to an entirely new set of conditions. They play an important part in our awareness of balance. Without gravity they act up for a time, then gradually lose function. "Do you know what sailors of ancient times meant by 'sea legs?'" asked Wyandotte. "Men on a rolling ocean acclimated themselves to a rolling horizontal. There were excellent psychological reasons for the old stereotype, the 'drunken sailor.' During the days that followed, the psychologist seemed to Craig to become progressively more didactic. He spoke repetitiously of the "growing complexity of Terran society." And yet the man could not be pinned down to any specific condition the spaceman would find intolerable. They were incredibly varied, even those that supported life. He had weathered difficult landings on worlds with rip-tide gravities, had felt the pull of the incredible star-tides imparted by twin and even triple star systems.
 Spacemen are more like aliens than humans.
 Spacemen are more like aliens than humans.  Spacemen are like sailors.  Spacemen are hicks.  Spacemen are of lower intelligence.