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Zero G for me

9 April 2014

I understand that the lines and sagging skin we acquire as we age are due to the sun and gravity. If I lived in a space station in zero or microgravity away from the sun, would I stay looking young?

• It is likelier that you would end up looking like a featureless bag of fat and fluid with porous bones and spindly attachments where your limbs and head used to be because human bodies would be free to expand in any direction without the pull of gravity.

“If you lived in zero gravity you would look like a featureless bag of fat, fluid and spindly attachments”…

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