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I've always* wondered if farting in your sleep on the ISS would
cause you to jet into the ceiling and wake yourself up. |
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(*this is clearly a lie; the thought would not have arisen in,
say, 1966) |
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Presumably you were otherwise preoccupied in (at) that year ... |
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Also, "always" implies spending many years being in a continuous state of musing about the propellant properties of zero-G flatulence. Doing this while, for example, deciding what to have for lunch, holding down a reasonably steady job, pretending to be at least an approximation of a normal person, remembering PIN numbers, shaking your fist at people who say "PIN numbers" instead of "PINs", and so on, must be quite difficult. |
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Multitasking, [hippo], multitasking. Although, looking back, I
sometimes wonder if I could instead have better spent that
time thinking about a cure for cancer. |
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Are you still thinking about farting on the ISS? |
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I would never waste precious time thinking about farting on the
ISS. |
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But if I did, then I might think that the fabric of your space
pyjamas would tend to disperse the reaction mass, which would,
in any case, be too small to apply a waking-you-up acceleration to
your dormant carcass. |
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That's what I might have thought, had it not been that I would not
think about it. |
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//pyjamas// - you're making a big assumption there |
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Isn't good posture due to muscle fitness? I tend to relax to sleep. A good dream initiator/sequencer might give the sleep fitness wanted. |
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This is one reason why the beds on the ISS have strap
features built-in to prevent you from floating off. |
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