Bucket List - Experience Weightlessness https://tabulaa/vitae/experience_weightlessness For more Goals Follow us on Instagram -instagram/tabulaa_ Weightlessness is a state in which an object has no actual weight because it is in space or in a situation where a object is unaffected by gravitational attraction. The two biggest problems with weightlessness and the human body are what the loss of resistance does to muscles and bones. Muscles begin to atrophy, and bones experience osteopenia or the loss of bone mass. These things happen because the lack of resistance tells your body to stop maintaining its bone and muscle tissue. There are ways to simulate weightlessness that do not involve going into space. Since the early 1970s, aircraft flying on six-mile long parabolic arcs have been used to create 25-30 seconds of weightlessness. The NASA aircraft that have filled this role are traditionally dubbed vomit comets because the induce Space Adaptation Syndrome. Zero gravity or even nearly zero gravity is a misnomer, and does not really exist anywhere in the universe. Gravity is an omnipresent, if sometimes subtle force. What is usually meant is instead better described as weightlessness.
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