New research brings more bad news to astronauts thinking about long-haul space flights as spinal muscles shrink after months in space, scientists have found.
Floating around in space in an environment with little or no gravity is not good for the human body. Along with decreased bone density, nausea, a puffy face, possible cognitive deterioration, an astronaut's back starts to weaken too.
The research is part of NASA's wider project to study the physical effects space has on the body to prepare for long-haul flights to Mars.
Results from the NASA-funded research have been published in Spine, and show spinal damage persists months after the astronauts return to Earth.
Six NASA crew members were subjected to MRI scans before and after spending four to seven months floating around the microgravity conditions of the International Space Station.
NASA should send the astronauts into space with one of those inversion tables so they can hang upside down.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday October 28 2016, @06:51PM
I thought it was because it was the only technically reasonable method (currently) to establish gravity in outer space, which is quite helpful to us. Yes, it does make it easier to film since we don't have Hollywood studios in orbit.
You could just 'Star Trek' it and vaguely refer to the "gravity generators", but when kids are taught in school that you can simulate gravity with rotation, it becomes pretty obvious to put that in a movie... where you're trying to simulate gravity for the crew. It's fairly non-obvious that we have difficulty creating rotating crew habitats, although have we even tried?
It's logical with strong scientific support, that's why I would think it would be in a movie. Otherwise animate it and refer to it as magic with elves in space :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.