Peristalsis

Well, you did learn something.

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 mean I can totally see kids choking on water while doing this too. Yes muscles but I am sure gravity helps too.

It’s even cooler than that: The esophagus can squeeze things towards the stomach against gravity. You can drink water while hanging upside down. You’ll also get a nose full of water because your sinuses would be below your mouth… But once it’s in your throat and you’re swallowing, it’ll make it to your stomach just fine.

If you wanted to avoid the sinus problem, I guess you could just lay on your back on a steep incline. Not fully upside down, so your sinus cavity is still above your mouth. That way the water would hit the back of your throat where you could swallow it, instead of just draining straight into your sinuses.

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.

There is no such thing

Thank you! I thought I was taking crazy pills.

They let that smarmy know it all shit into space? Bugs Meaney should have just kicked his ass.

Do you jump up and down after each bite?

Also, no breakfast in bed?

you could set the spaceship in rotating motion, sothat the centripetal forces push you outwards and create the impression of artificial gravity for you.

besides, why does no spaceship seem to be doing this today, like, at all?

Don't worry, Goku will save us. Well, some of us. When he eventually gets here, after the Z warriors have been beaten up.

Or if we're lucky a new strong character will one shot him as his introduction.

There's a slight increase in the blood pressure in your upper body, and a small possibility of thrombosis, blood clots forming in your veins. But after 50+ years of space flight no one has had complications.

Veins are small so capillary action keeps things in order.

With no gravity though you'll have higher blood pressure to your head (and less to the legs)- it kinda makes astronauts faces a bit puffy. iirc this can slightly negatively affect vision long term.

Most of your body processes are in a small enough space that capillary action overtakes gravity.

If you put it on a sandwich, yes.

Baby bird style

You can swallow things while dangling upside down. The esophagus is strong enough to work against gravity.

But liquids are a little bit more difficult, because they tend to flow in unexpected places in the mouth/sinuses/nose before trying to swallow.

What if you're upside down?

Probably bee things

A video of a bee in microgravity. https://youtu.be/SF-IuZwVWMU

Try not eating as much sugar. I haven't had heartburn since I went zerocarb*, though I suggested from that pretty badly on my previous diet

*not actually zero carb, just really really low carb, zero fibre.

Why would it be filthy? It's not like they get a lot of dirt out there

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.

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.

Probably also helps with eating while lying down.

Memory unlocked. https://youtu.be/bC6jJnVe1LI?t=16m28s

I feel like there was another episode covering this where they had them try to drink upside down, or am I mistaken?