• bdonvrA
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    Veins are small so capillary action keeps things in order.

    With no gravity though you’ll have higher blood pressure to your head (and less to the legs)- it kinda makes astronauts faces a bit puffy. iirc this can slightly negatively affect vision long term.

    Most of your body processes are in a small enough space that capillary action overtakes gravity.

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      With no gravity though you’ll have higher blood pressure to your head (and less to the legs)

      So what you’re saying is they should alternate between upside down and right side up

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        Technically if they did that fast enough the blood pressure on both would get higher, potentially MUCH higher.