Japanese astronaut spurts in space

Mr Badger · 9 Jan 2018 at 14:25

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42618786

Would you want an extra 3.5 inches?

Sliver · 9 Jan 2018 at 14:29

Came expecting Asian pr0n. Left disappoint.

Whitewater · 9 Jan 2018 at 14:31

I’d love an extra 3.5”.

wolfie138 · 9 Jan 2018 at 14:50

try a dating site then

Orionaut · 9 Jan 2018 at 14:54

How does the spinal cord cope with this?

Side note, I wonder if anybody bask in the day actually measured how much somebody could be stretched on a rack before they were permanently damaged?

(It would actually be quite useful to know for a professional, erm, interrogator. )

muon · 9 Jan 2018 at 14:55

If you went while you were a kid, could you become stupidly tall and would it be permanent?

Aedus · 9 Jan 2018 at 14:58

muon said:
If you went while you were a kid, could you become stupidly tall and would it be permanent?

Would it not potentially damage your spine if you had a big growth spurt and then came back into normal mavity?

Akagi · 9 Jan 2018 at 14:59

Orionaut said:
How does the spinal cord cope with this?

Side note, I wonder if anybody bask in the day actually measured how much somebody could be stretched on a rack before they were permanently damaged?

(It would actually be quite useful to know for a professional, erm, interrogator. )

That far back, they didn't have the knowledge or tech to be able to tell if someone had been permanently damaged or not.

muon · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:01

Aedus said:
Would it not potentially damage your spine if you had a big growth spurt and then came back into normal mavity?

Why do growing kids not suffer spinal cord damage?

Efour · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:05

muon said:
Why do growing kids not suffer spinal cord damage?

Not sure if serious.

Because it grows?

robfosters · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:06

I once got 4 inches taller in 8 hours. Can you work out how?

It didn’t involve shoes or a large hat of any kind.

muon · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:07

Efour said:
Not sure if serious.

Because it grows?

So the spinal cord is capable of growing you say?

SilverTongue · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:12

muon said:
So the spinal cord is capable of growing you say?

Well yeah? How do you expect the spinal cord would be able to fit into a baby less that a foot long but also into a 6'6" adult

muon · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:14

I think the spinal cord will adjust (something it clearly is capable of). That is why astronauts aren't crippled.

HEADRAT · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:15

Astronauts can grow while in space and return to a normal height when they go back to Earth.

Click to expand...

So unless your going to stay in space then you you shrink back to normal.

Efour · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:16

In a developing young child it is i hope so or we would all be 1 foot tall like at birth?

After our bodies reaches a maximum length is assume it also stops growing. Living in a zero g environment would probably allow for a bit of separation on the vertebrae and leg joints giving you a bit of extra height/length.

Are you gonna present some medical paper saying it doesn't grow? I don't get where this is going.

jsmoke · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:16

You would think that would be painful well the decompressing part anyway.

Efour · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:20

Or liberating. Plenty of people visit chiropractors for stretchy, pully back and muscle action. Fnarr fnarr.

Methos · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:26

muon said:
If you went while you were a kid, could you become stupidly tall and would it be permanent?

you'd have serious muscle problems as well coming back to earth after spending kid to adult life in zero mavity to take advantage of the growth potential

you might be taller... but your muscles would be weaker than a newborn kitten when you got back to normal mavity... and that's not even accounting for the problems to your skeleton weakening

so... an extra few inches... but with bone weakening and muscle atrophy... not really a trade off i'd want to make lol

muon · 9 Jan 2018 at 15:51

Yeh but muscles can be trained up again.