Did you know that...

[Mugwump]

Scott Kelly grew 2" while he was on the space station for almost a year?   

[GraphicGr8s]

Won't last for long I venture. Once gravity starts working on the vertebrae he'll be an inch shorter than  when he left.

[Mugwump]

Won't last for long I venture. Once gravity starts working on the vertebrae he'll be an inch shorter than  when he left.

...that's to be determined, I would think?....no one has ever been in space that long before.....did he actually grow?.....maybe, all our bodies continue to grow in some ways....hair, nails, etc....just because the peak growing spurt has passed, doesn't mean it's stopped all together....and possibly without gravity his body just grew??.....I guess we'll find out...I'm wondering how long it will take him to adjust to gravity again, and walk without an effort....

[BillT]

I have heard that people vary in height through a normal day.
The argument is that during the day (assuming you are vertical) the disks (cartilage) between your vertebrae get squashed down a bit more flat than they started out as. At night they are not under pressure and expand back out a bit to their morning size.

Presumably, in space no one's vertebrae get squashed in this way, unless they are in a centrifuge.

[Mugwump]

I have heard that people vary in height through a normal day.
The argument is that during the day (assuming you are vertical) the disks (cartilage) between your vertebrae get squashed down a bit more flat than they started out as. At night they are not under pressure and expand back out a bit to their morning size.

Presumably, in space no one's vertebrae get squashed in this way, unless they are in a centrifuge.

yup, feel taller in the morn'n.....but not over 2" tho...LOL........we'll see...

[ghonk]

Show on PBS last night about him,A Year in Space.   

[Rjb3]

Heck, some mornings I'm ten feet tall and bulletproof. Lately, not so much.

[Barb]

Hang in there Bob, time passing will help.  What I wonder is if Scott were in space for 2 or more years, would he have kept getting taller?
Barb

[Mugwump]

Heck, some mornings I'm ten feet tall and bulletproof. Lately, not so much.

'Bullet proof?'...wow, what a great name for a fish food...'Bullet proof Frenzy".....