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It’s time to put another quirky (and often ridiculous) Mary Roach book to bed so I’ll leave you with a few excerpts sure to make you appreciate the ease of planetary bathroom visits.
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Yes. I’m going there.
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This, not walking on the moon, is what makes astronauts heroes.
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There’s a fact I never knew.
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And I thought my husband spent too much time on the throne. Damn!
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Until I read this book I never gave much thought to inhaling space vomit, but trust me… NASA has.
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On that happy note much research has gone into vomit training and simulation.
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I’ve never eaten Progresso vegetable soup, and now? I’m quite sure I never will.
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There’s a job for which you will never see me volunteer.
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Since motion sickness is a natural response to a novel or sensorially perplexing motion or gravitational environment, astronauts have to go through it all over again when they return to Earth after a long mission. During the weeks or months of no gravity, their brains have been interpreting all otolith cues as acceleration in one direction or another. So when they move their head, their brain
tells them they’re moving.
Astronaut Peggy Whitson described her first moments on Earth after coming back from 191 days on the International Space Station like this: “I stood up and the world was going around me at 17,500 miles per hour, as opposed to me going around the world at 17,500 miles per hour.” It’s called land-
ing vertigo, or Earth sickness.
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How bizarre is that?
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Avoid turkey vultures at all costs.
Got it!
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River's world..... 