Comment on Space Honey
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 months ago
Does this happen to your blood too?
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.
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.
If you put it on a sandwich, yes.
ajmaxwell@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Though most don’t stay more than a few months up there.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
also who would stay more than 6 months in space? a journey to mars takes about 6 months on the most fuel-efficient trajectory.