2007-03-19 09:04:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
yes, helmet clog. if no helmet, floating barf
spinning, hurling, floating
2007-03-19 09:36:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Something similar to what happened in the Appolo 8 and 13 missions, which was apparently pretty closely approximated by the scene about such an event in the movie "Appolo 13" with Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon, and was filmed on the inside of a jet airplane in a zero-g arc, which just isn't quite the same thing as zero gravitation, because you could still see the chunks of stuff that Bill Paxton spit out wasn't just free floating, but was being affected by the miniscule course corrections being made by the airplane's pilot. But, I can't imagine a better way to demonstrate it than to actually video tape someone pukng for real.
2007-03-19 09:17:14 · answer #2 · answered by Robert G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, first there would be a nice mess to clean up, either it floating in the station, or off of whatever the vomit ran into.
Second, NASA and the Russian Space Agency would have to determine if the astronaut needed medical attention and needed to be brought back down to Earth, or if it was a one time thing and their mission could continue as is.
2007-03-19 09:08:29 · answer #3 · answered by Josh A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've got an awful mess to clean up. If you don't get all the liquid pieces, it can short out some of the electronics. The solids just get in the way.
However, there are not many people who don't have a warning they are going to barf. I am sure NASA would weed anyone out who had no clue they were gonna barf.
2007-03-19 09:17:11 · answer #4 · answered by wiscman77 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's happened. And what follows is rather a lot of barf distrbuted around the living quarters.
Furthermore, a surprising number of astronauts experience it. They do their practice in a parabolic flight in an aircraft, that gives them 90-odd seconds of free-floating experience, and not for nothing is the aircraft known as the Vomit Comet.
2007-03-19 09:15:23 · answer #5 · answered by mrsgavanrossem 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As Lodar says even as an merchandise alongside with the commute is in orbit, it really is in free fall. there is gravity pulling it in the route of Earth, virtually as a lot as there is on the floor, and it really is falling, even if it keeps lacking because it is going so quickly. everybody interior is falling on a similar %, so that they seem weightless. it really is no longer something to do with the air, or vacuum, it really is about the speed and trajectory. A airplane (or for that count number a roller coaster automobile) can shuttle for a little while in a ballistic trajectory that leaves the occupants apparently weightless. yet in person-friendly words in area, in vacuum, can a vessel flow quickly sufficient to shop doing that forever with out hitting the floor.
2016-11-26 22:55:23 · answer #6 · answered by fulgham 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The vomit would of course float off but its likely that they'd try to capture it while it was floating. That way it wouldnt get into any of the ventialtion systems are mess up any equipment.
2007-03-19 09:13:26 · answer #7 · answered by killertomcat02 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd have little vomit balls floating hither and yon, though their initial direction and velocity would be in the direction the astronaut was facing.
I'm sure it's happened.
2007-03-19 09:07:48 · answer #8 · answered by Brian L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Helmet clog
2007-03-19 09:07:20 · answer #9 · answered by steve h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would pull out their Rhumba 4000 and let it clean up.
2007-03-19 09:17:27 · answer #10 · answered by scottanthonydavis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋