I wanna know what it feels like to sleep in space, waking up with no gravity pulling you down gotta feel really nice.
[QUOTE=TurbisV2;38864058]I wanna know what it feels like to sleep in space, waking up with no gravity pulling you down gotta feel really nice.[/QUOTE]
I don't think it's really comfortable. There's an hour-long video where they show, among many other things, how the astronauts sleep on the ISS. It's basically a coffin, so that you don't float around everywhere.
Can't imagine it being easy to sleep in there, considering it's probably quite noisy in there.
This is p much what programs like f.lux and redshift do, can't see any reason why it wouldn't work.
Then again, everything's different in microgravity, it seems
[quote]Blue light is also believed to suppress melatonin - a hormone made by the brain's pineal gland which makes a person feel sleepy when its levels rise in their blood.[/quote]
So that's why a road tunnel on my way to school is filled with blue lights.
Seriously it's like the whole tunnel is being lighted by UV lights.
[QUOTE=rosthouse;38864120]I don't think it's really comfortable. There's an hour-long video where they show, among many other things, how the astronauts sleep on the ISS. It's basically a coffin, so that you don't float around everywhere.
Can't imagine it being easy to sleep in there, considering it's probably quite noisy in there.[/QUOTE]
I'd love to try sleeping in a giant fluffy sphere in zero-gravity.
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;38864228]So that's why a road tunnel on my way to school is filled with blue lights.
Seriously it's like the whole tunnel is being lighted by UV lights.[/QUOTE]
I noticed that modern trams have this too.
[QUOTE=TurbisV2;38864058]I wanna know what it feels like to sleep in space, waking up with no gravity pulling you down gotta feel really nice.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.aviationspectator.com/files/images/Space-Shuttle-Discovery-STS-122-048.preview.jpg[/img]
Yeah you just got straps pulling you down. Tis a sad life.
would suck if someone drooled excessively in their sleep
Floating river of drool coming out of persons mouth to anothers who is snoring.
[QUOTE=Careld;38864432]Floating river of drool coming out of persons mouth to anothers who is snoring.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like some kind of fetish :v:
[QUOTE=Careld;38864432]Floating river of drool coming out of persons mouth to anothers who is snoring.[/QUOTE]
I suddenly don't want to ever become an astronaut.
Thanks.
Sleeping in microgravity in a padded room has got to be an amazing experience though
[QUOTE=Novangel;38864394][img]http://www.aviationspectator.com/files/images/Space-Shuttle-Discovery-STS-122-048.preview.jpg[/img]
Yeah you just got straps pulling you down. Tis a sad life.[/QUOTE]
Well thats quite obvious, but you're still weightless.
I wouldn't want to float around freely while sleeping weightless, I'd just bump in to things and wake up constantly.
[QUOTE=mrhippieguy;38864171]This is p much what programs like f.lux and redshift do, can't see any reason why it wouldn't work.
Then again, everything's different in microgravity, it seems[/QUOTE]
F.lux is wonderful. I've been using it for a while and it puts so much less strain on my eyes.
Also, I'm not surprised this is under consideration. For a while we've known about the effects of full-spectrum bulbs and lamps, which replicate natural sunlight by putting out all the colors in the visible spectrum, versus normal bulbs which only output white light. They help the body produce Vitamin D, which has a vague but promising connection to keeping depression and other mood affects away.
[quote=what i've been told by my psychiatrist]When the skin is exposed to sunlight above a UV index of 3, a chemical called 7-dehydrocholesterol in the skin reacts and begins to synthesize into a calciferol (a designation for the types of D), in this case cholecalciferol, D[sub]3[/sub]. D[sub]3[/sub] in its active form, calcitriol, has been under study to classify its effects, and aside from helping the thyroid to regulate the metabolism, it also seems to help lengthen the lives of seniors. It's an anti-microbial, helping to defend against infection.[/quote]
Not totally on-topic, but it shows that we've been looking into different kinds of light as therapy to help keep people mentally stable. So far light research has had good and informative results, so I hope this works out for NASA. Could, in the future, help with long-term trips away from Earth.
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