I think there was a science experiments book for kids that dared me to drink water from a glass 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.
I mean I can totally see kids choking on water while doing this too. Yes muscles but I am sure gravity helps too.
I’m too lazy to find it now, but one of the tests they tried long before NASA started sending people into space was eating a banana upside down where they figured out the digestive tract can function against gravity.
There was also an encyclopedia brown story about this in which I remember Geese and Ducks rely on gravity to swallow, therefore they wouldn’t be able to eat in space.
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?
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.
Yeah, keep posing this images, don’t complain when Freezer attacks looking for the other 7 balls
Don’t worry, Goku will save us. Well, some of us. When he eventually gets here, after the Z warriors have been beaten up.
Or if we’re lucky a new strong character will one shot him as his introduction.
Oh that’s interesting, I wonder if it’s easier to get heartburn in space? It’s common to need to sit upright to keep the acid down.
I don’t know about you guys, but I just open my throat straight down to my stomach and pour the food in.
Baby bird style
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.
You can use a vacuum cleaner, but since there’s hardly any gravity most would already get picked up be a simple air filter.
What would a bee do in zero gravity?
A video of a bee in microgravity. https://youtu.be/SF-IuZwVWMU
Obviously they’ve never seen the Mr. Wizard’s World episode where they ate upside down.
Memory unlocked. https://youtu.be/bC6jJnVe1LI?t=16m28s
I feel like there was another episode covering this where they had them try to drink upside down, or am I mistaken?
Here you go, OP. Have fun. (open-access)
Good job he’s not a bird
