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.
They let that smarmy know it all shit into space? Bugs Meaney should have just kicked his ass.
good question actually, the esophagus can squeeze things towards the stomach without gravity’s help.
It’s even cooler than that: The esophagus can squeeze things towards the stomach against gravity. You can drink water while hanging upside down. You’ll also get a nose full of water because your sinuses would be below your mouth… But once it’s in your throat and you’re swallowing, it’ll make it to your stomach just fine.
If you wanted to avoid the sinus problem, I guess you could just lay on your back on a steep incline. Not fully upside down, so your sinus cavity is still above your mouth. That way the water would hit the back of your throat where you could swallow it, instead of just draining straight into your sinuses.
what!? i can clearly remember being like 10 hanging upside down from my knees on a jungle gym and drinking water from a bottle and having no problem at all and proving my mom that i wouldnt choke doing that
A quick swallow, maybe? (I’m thinking small mouthfuls)
nah, i always chugged down water, liked the way i felt the water slosh on my stomach xD
If you slowly inhale through your nose while drinking the pressure from the air coming in will likely direct the water towards your esophagus as well as keeping water out of your nasal cavity.
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.
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.
Maybe the issue is that you’re too horizontal? Try doing a handstand first.
And don’t forget the funnel.
Ever heard of a kegstand?
i think it’s about getting used to it.
Peristalsis
This was legitimately a significant concern that early space programs had. Like, how well would people be able to swallow in free fall, would certain kinds of food cause problems? The food experiments during the Gemini program are pretty interesting
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.
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.
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.
That’s a lot of fucking honey!
There is no such thing
No, honey definitely exists
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
But ‘fucking honey’?
I have terrible news
dafuq
Happy to help expand your view of this crazy crazy world, cause now you know of Cialis honey.
The honey pack LMAO that’s a classic
Why do you think the flowers let the bees have their nectar.
Probably when they return home frome space
Thank you! I thought I was taking crazy pills.
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.
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?
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
What would a bee do in zero gravity?
Probably bee things
Beelieve or not, fly.
A video of a bee in microgravity. https://youtu.be/SF-IuZwVWMU
That was underwhelming. Thank you anyway.
Can you swallow things when you’re laying flat? I imagine swallowing food in space would be no more difficult.
You can swallow things while dangling upside down. The esophagus is strong enough to work against gravity.
But liquids are a little bit more difficult, because they tend to flow in unexpected places in the mouth/sinuses/nose before trying to swallow.
Once I had to drink barium while being tilted upside down on a big table while they watched it with X-rays… apparently that’s a medical test lol I didn’t find it anymore difficult than drinking normally personally but it has to do with the strength of your swallow most of all, which is what they were testing at the time.
We get it, you’re good at swallowing
Hey wyd Saturday night
What if you’re upside down?
Yup, cures my hiccups. Lay back over something so mouth to stomach is reverse inclined, as close to vertical as I can get. Then take several swallows of water. Either one mouthful that I took before I laid back swallowed a little at a time, or several sips from a straw after laying back.
I’ve just realised that because of my esophageal dysmotility I wouldn’t be able to eat in space.
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
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?
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.
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
