They should talk to Hal from The Lumbar Yard. Soon as he's done with his swim.
Ping.
I wonder if there is an exercise program that could counteract this.
Could they create a micro-gravity environment? You know, the old spinning spaceship.
They just need to stimulate the spindle neurons to increase Proprioception.
They should talk to Hal from The Lumbar Yard. Soon as he's done with his swim.
The use of a spinning wheel design to create gravity artificially should prevent this, shouldn’t it?
From what I’ve read, you’d need a pretty big spaceship in order to rotate it fast enough to generate artificial gravity.
“suggesting that muscle atrophy may occur without the resistance provided by gravity.”
So... build the Pan Am space wheel that we saw in 2001 and fly it to Mars....
This problem is easily solved.
The price/cost of lift continues to fall, thereby enabling bigger ships to be built in orbit.
Those bigger ships can use centrifugal force to simulate gravity. At precisely 1.0 Gs.
They can then be propelled out of orbit spinning on their axis like a bullet.
The concept has been widely understood for NEARLY a century.
Blindness is now not alone in the crippling effects of long duration space flight - manned flight to Mars is out. Moon Yes. Perhaps children born there would be less or not at all susceptible to these unfortunate effects.
Cure long duration space flight muscle loss with
this one simple trick...apple cider vinegar.
Yes, apple cider vinegar taken daily during long duration
space flight will not only sweeten your breath, clean
your teeth and kill space roaches it will cure muscle loss!!
It’s good for cleaning dog nose prints from space craft windows too!
What they need to do is somehow do gradual acclimation to gravity. Or maybe come up with a device to manipulate the discs back in during gravity acclimation.
“[L]ong-duration space travel causes crippling back pain that can last for up to four YEARS”
lots of other things can cause that too ... even WITHOUT going into space ...
Centrifugal force to create artificial gravity has been the obvious solution for years and years.
Why do we not plan future builds with this in mind?
Now there’s a new twist on an old excuse. “ not tonight honey, I have a zero gravity caused backache.”
Maybe working towards getting those muscles closer to 2G strength before leaving earth could allow them up there for a period to atrophy back down to 1G strength.
This seems more like something they've just come to understand and haven't worked out, not something that should stop long terms in space until the advent of giant spinning ships.