Right, why do we have that redundant swallowing mechanism? Did enough people choke while eating upside down to make a difference? Wait, this is from our ape-y ancestry?
Most water back in the day was at ground level, so if we could only rely on gravity we’d have had a hell of a time bending down to slurp it up.
Oh, right, that’s a thing.
My guess it’s even older than that. My bullshitspiration is that peristalsis enabled more complex digestion when our quadruped ancestors needed more nutrition options.
How about the fact that being a qaudruped is basically the body plan for mammals. Humans are the weird ones for standing upright and having our mouths be directly above our stomachs. Every other mammal has their stomach mostly parallel with the mouth while standing. In order for food to get to the stomach, you’d need some force moving the food sideways towards the stomach.
I think there was a science experiments book for kids that dared me to drink water 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.
Well, you did learn something.
And they never skipped leg day ever again.
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.
I mean I can totally see kids choking on water while doing this too. Yes muscles but I am sure gravity helps too.
Good job he’s not a bird
That’s a lot of fucking honey!
You don’t enjoy a light snack of one slice of bread + a quarter cup of honey?
Thank you! I thought I was taking crazy pills.
There is no such thing
No, honey definitely exists
But ‘fucking honey’?
I have terrible news
dafuq
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
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
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.
Ever heard of a kegstand?
i think it’s about getting used to it.
Maybe the issue is that you’re too horizontal? Try doing a handstand first.
And don’t forget the funnel.
Peristalsis
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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
Dust comes from human skin flakes.
There a giant vacuum though.
Just open two opposite windows.
Well that didn’t work (windows outlook debacle).
Part of it yes, but I’d assume they also clean there sometimes.
Part of it is I don’t know how skin particles will act inside a space station. Are there static electricity forces that would make it stick to surfaces, or does it remain suspended in air until the filtration gets to it?
Static electricity would definitely be a factor, but there’s probably pretty good air circulation and filtering. That combined with regular wipe downs of surfaces probably keeps dust under control.
I know the moon missions in the past had a hell of a time dealing with lunar dust. It’s super fine and static was sticking it to everything.
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.
Here you go, OP. Have fun. (open-access)
Gulping in.
Obviously they’ve never seen the Mr. Wizard’s World episode where they ate upside down.
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’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.
What would a bee do in zero gravity?
A video of a bee in microgravity. https://youtu.be/SF-IuZwVWMU
That was underwhelming. Thank you anyway.
Probably bee things
Beelieve or not, fly.
