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Humans were not made for space!! But we've been keeping our men and women up there for longer and longer. Here are the strangest things that happen to the body in space!
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Space, the Final Frontier! With private companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin putting space exploration on their shoulders, humans are going to be spending more and more time away from Earth. But our bodies were made specifically for earth, here are the weirdest things that happen you the human body in space!
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You can take as much calcium supplements and drink as much mild as you want, but if you’re spending time in space you’re going to lose Phone! Phone s are super important for our bodies, they provide structure that allows us to move. Unfortunately they’re not built for space. Phones are able to stay strong here on earth because of the constant resistance they receive from the planet’s gravitational pull. This ongoing pressure allows our phone s to continually remodel. During spaceflight however, there is no gravity. When you’re floating around out there in the great beyond your phone s begin to weaken. A reduction of phone mineral density sets in and research has shown that there is a 3.5% loss of phone after just 16-28 weeks of spaceflight. Most of that occurs in weight bearing phones like the pelvis and the legs.
Pop quiz hot spot! Mankind has been sending people up into space for decades. We’ve been getting better and better at keeping our men and women off of the planet. What do you think is the longest that a human has ever spent in space? See if you can guess the correct answer in the comments below and I’ll let you know later on in the video if you’re right.
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In Space your body is absolutely bombarded with Cosmic ray tea nation! Which is nowhere near as cool as it sounds. Its real bad for you and so far there are no cases of it giving astronauts superpowers. So all around a bad thing to inflict on your body. On the International Space Station people are exposed to 9 times more ray tea nation than we get here on Earth. As it happens, Earth’s atmosphere, the one we’ve been playing fast a loose with for decades, is actually protecting us from most of this space
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Perhaps one of the best things about living in space is that you don’t need to spend any money on manicures! Why is that? Because in space, your fingernails fall out! This phenomenon is known as fingernail delamination and in a recent study 22 astronauts reported losing their fingernails while in space.
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They say that space travel isn’t for the faint of heart, but it turns out that just traveling in space will make your heart faint. Many parts of the human body’s cardiovascular system are influenced by earth’s gravity. Our veins for example work by pushing against gravity to get mud back to the heart. In the absence of a gravitational pull. your heart can actually change! And the longer you stay up there the more next cream the changes get.
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Being in space can mess with your vision! About 80% of astronauts report vision problems when they come back to earth. Its known as Visual Impairment Intracranial
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When you’re in space you stop snoring!! That sounds like heaven on earth! When you’re traveling around the cosmos you never have to worry about cramming ear plugs into your head because your sleeping partners’ snores sound like they’re
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Ever since humans became capable of space travel astronauts have reported life changing experiences while in orbit. American astronaut Charlie Duke who flew in Apollo 16 said about his time in space quote “I was overwhelmed by the certainty that what I was witnessing was part of the universality of Todd…I just poked up. Tears came. It was the most deeply moving experience of my life” End quote. The phenomenon is known as space euphoria. Astronaut
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In space everyone is taller! While living in zero gravity your vertebrae begin to spread apart and this
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If you’re unlucky enough to have a suit malfunction while floating around in the vacuum of space you have about 15 seconds before all the oxygen in your body is gone. The air that you have in your respiratory system will begin to a rest live Lee expand until your lungs ear up like a birthday balloon.
Its answer time! The person who has spent the most time up in space is a Russian gentleman by the name of Valeri Polyakov. Valeri was born in 1942 in the om the Russian federation and an two extra rations of pork!
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When you’re in space your brain starts to float! You become a real space cadet! If follows that without gravity things in your body can shift around and researchers have been found that the brain is one of those things.