Good job he’s not a bird
Given how filthy the ISS is, I don’t know if I’d want to eat anything not nuked into oblivion.
Why would it be filthy? It’s not like they get a lot of dirt out there
Imagine trying to clean it. You can’t whip out a mop. Showers, wash cycles etc are all no go. Not too mention experiments from plants, chemicals, drugs etc which create their own issues. In some ways it’s clean, but others not so much.
Dust comes from human skin flakes.
Part of it yes, but I’d assume they also clean there sometimes.
Part of it is I don’t know how skin particles will act inside a space station. Are there static electricity forces that would make it stick to surfaces, or does it remain suspended in air until the filtration gets to it?
Static electricity would definitely be a factor, but there’s probably pretty good air circulation and filtering. That combined with regular wipe downs of surfaces probably keeps dust under control.
I know the moon missions in the past had a hell of a time dealing with lunar dust. It’s super fine and static was sticking it to everything.
There a giant vacuum though.
Just open two opposite windows.
Well that didn’t work (windows outlook debacle).
Here you go, OP. Have fun. (open-access)
Gulping in.
That’s a lot of fucking honey!
Thank you! I thought I was taking crazy pills.
There is no such thing
No, honey definitely exists
But ‘fucking honey’?
I have terrible news
dafuq
Honey is a lie told to us by the bees in order to trick us into building beehives for them
Bee movie was a documentary
You don’t enjoy a light snack of one slice of bread + a quarter cup of honey?
Some poor soul has never watched Bill Nye the Science Guy… what has the world come too… D:
Most of the non-English speaking world hasn’t seen him as kids. I don’t remember where I learned about peristalsis, but I grew up just fine.
This was my jam as a kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time…_Life
“bread”
Does this happen to your blood too?
If you put it on a sandwich, yes.
There’s a slight increase in the blood pressure in your upper body, and a small possibility of thrombosis, blood clots forming in your veins. But after 50+ years of space flight no one has had complications.
Though most don’t stay more than a few months up there.
also who would stay more than 6 months in space? a journey to mars takes about 6 months on the most fuel-efficient trajectory.
due to how weird orbital mechanics are, there’s one (and only this one) most fuel-efficient trajectory between earth and mars and it’s the so-called Hohmann Transfer Orbit ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohmann_transfer_orbit ). It takes 6 months.
Veins are small so capillary action keeps things in order.
With no gravity though you’ll have higher blood pressure to your head (and less to the legs)- it kinda makes astronauts faces a bit puffy. iirc this can slightly negatively affect vision long term.
Most of your body processes are in a small enough space that capillary action overtakes gravity.
With no gravity though you’ll have higher blood pressure to your head (and less to the legs)
So what you’re saying is they should alternate between upside down and right side up
Technically if they did that fast enough the blood pressure on both would get higher, potentially MUCH higher.
I’ve just realised that because of my esophageal dysmotility I wouldn’t be able to eat in space.
Do you jump up and down after each bite?
Also, no breakfast in bed?
you could set the spaceship in rotating motion, sothat the centripetal forces push you outwards and create the impression of artificial gravity for you.
besides, why does no spaceship seem to be doing this today, like, at all?
The centripetal force is provided by your legs (and the spokes of the centrifuge)
You’re looking for inertia or the fictitious force (which makes the calculations easier): centrifugal acceleration
Cause we have lots of places to do science with gravity, its nice to have a place to do science without it.
And hard to maintain the force without damaging the ship. We have small space stations and shuttles and they would need to rotate really fast to generate gravity similar to earth and that is taxing on the structure and you since your feet would have a lot more gravity than your head closer to the center of the circle.If you have seen project hail Mary that is why there is an extendable counter weight actually. It helps move the central point of the rotation further away from the astronaut and let’s it rotate slower and have more consistent force.
Is this a writing prompt about being left behind on a dying earth because you’d starve on your voyage to Mars?
Ehh. He could be “fed” via intravenous injections or a stomach bag
I think there was a science experiments book for kids that dared me to drink water upside down through a straw while hanging from monkey bars or something. It was meant to show how our body deliberately moves food towards the stomach instead of solely relying on gravity, but instead it showed that I my legs were too weak.
A shame these experiments are deemed to dangerous nowadays and people have to show their ignorance online, simply because the new metal straws have pierced the brains of anyone who did them.
Well, you did learn something.
And they never skipped leg day ever again.
I mean I can totally see kids choking on water while doing this too. Yes muscles but I am sure gravity helps too.
because the new metal straws have pierced the brains of anyone who did them.
I am confused by this, straws go in the mouth, if people are sticking them in their brains, they’re doing it wrong, or are you saying there is a crack team of assasins out there who’ve vowed to keep this knowledge secret in a particularly gruesome manner?
I implied that I fell from the monkey bars, and since I was drinking through a straw, I fell head first onto my water glass with the straw in my mouth that was below me. A common misconception of metal straws is that they are dangerous and can pierce through the mouth into the brain.
I guess I could specify where the glass is in the experiment.
A common misconception of metal straws is that they are dangerous and can pierce through the mouth into the brain.
I mean it depends on the diameter of the straw. If the straw is thin as a needle, i imagine it sure can. I mean it’s only about the pressure, not the total amount of force. And pressure is force per area, so if the cross-section area of the straw is small, it will generate enormous pressure and that can surely pierce your skull.
No need to pierce the skull if you’re coming from underneath.
Swallowing is a mechanical action done with your muscles; that’s how astronauts can eat and how you can eat or drink upside down if you were really wanting to.
Saw someone drinking a whole beer from a funnel while being being held upside down. People do this and I basically die when drinking a sip of water while lying in bed.
Ever heard of a kegstand?
i think it’s about getting used to it.
Maybe the issue is that you’re too horizontal? Try doing a handstand first.
And don’t forget the funnel.
Peristalsis
Right, why do we have that redundant swallowing mechanism? Did enough people choke while eating upside down to make a difference? Wait, this is from our ape-y ancestry?
Most water back in the day was at ground level, so if we could only rely on gravity we’d have had a hell of a time bending down to slurp it up.
Oh, right, that’s a thing.
My guess it’s even older than that. My bullshitspiration is that peristalsis enabled more complex digestion when our quadruped ancestors needed more nutrition options.
How about the fact that being a qaudruped is basically the body plan for mammals. Humans are the weird ones for standing upright and having our mouths be directly above our stomachs. Every other mammal has their stomach mostly parallel with the mouth while standing. In order for food to get to the stomach, you’d need some force moving the food sideways towards the stomach.
Keith is a bird.
I have no proof but neither doubts
Looks l Iike a dragon ball
