#hypogravity
Stockholm bound for #isb2025! Come and say hi on Tuesday (poster on loss of #proprioception) or Wednesday (talk on #locomotor modularity in simulated #hypogravity)!
#musclesyneRgies #neuroscience #biomechanics #locomotion @mdc-berlin.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
and hypogravity
May 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Don't forget hypogravity - Mars G is one-third Earth G, neither human body nor organisms on which we depend are adapted to Mars G. NASA life science folks I've interviewed point to hypogravity as the showstopper. Rad can be shielded but on planet we can't boost G.
December 30, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Want to hear about #Moon walking, #hypogravity #locomotion, and #proprioception, and are in Berlin tomorrow?

Come join us at the 2026 @mdc-berlin.bsky.social #Neuroscience Meeting, 8 May, Campus Buch. I’ll be speaking in Session 1!
May 7, 2026 at 5:11 PM
One of a host of biomedical problems of spaceflight. The one I like is hypogravity - we have no idea how the human body will cope with long stays in Moon and Mars G. In some ways it could be worse than zero G - for example, if bones continue to weaken in hypo G, breaks from falls become possible.
March 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I repeated hypogravity there - meant to type isolation (psych effects)
May 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I wrote about this - with added context - on my blog No Shortage of Dreams.

Could be that gravity only a little less than Earth G would be the biggest attraction - we know so little about human health in hypogravity.

spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2020/08/venu...
Venus is the Best Place in the Solar System to Establish a Human Settlement (2003)
The story of spaceflight told through missions and programs that did not happen - that is, the great majority of them.
spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Walking on the Moon: Hypogravity drives the emergence of a proprioception-dependent locomotor state https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.02.729513v1
June 5, 2026 at 7:16 PM
hypogravity, hypogravity, unknown unknowns (ex: effects of chemically reactive ever-present Mars dust on human skin & lungs), risk of failures & health emergencies millions of kilometers and hundreds of days from the nearest help, radiation risk to people outside the habitat, synergies of all these
May 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I've just arrived in beautiful Prato, Italy, for the "3rd Mechanotransduction, Muscle Spindles and Proprioception Conference". I'll present our work on #hypogravity #locomotion and #proprioception, now out as a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
June 29, 2026 at 5:21 AM
also hypogravity
May 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
If Musk were serious he'd help build our space future by doing spadework needed before we can make plans to live anywhere beyond Earth. A variable-G space station for hypogravity research, sample return so we can determine Mars dust toxicity, etc, etc, etc.

But he's not serious about anything.
December 30, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Walking on the Moon: Hypogravity drives the emergence of a proprioception-dependent locomotor state https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.02.729513v1
June 5, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Ultimately hypogravity is the bigger problem - can shield against radiation (within reason) but can't make useful gravity, only acceleration, and creating acceleration generates lots of engineering problems (and tough to do planet surfaces). Going faster to limit exposure helps (but not on planets)
June 18, 2024 at 8:27 PM
His fans could serve as hypogravity research lab rats on board "Musk Station." It'd be an opportunity for thousands of people to contribute to our future in space. It'd certainly clue a lot of folks into the realities of spaceflight.
September 8, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Yes - and do research into hypogravity effects on humans and organisms they need to live. If Musk announced he planned to build a partial-G space station, I'd take him a little more seriously.
June 19, 2026 at 11:11 PM
The biggest problem in terms of long-term sruvival is the one everyone seems to miss - hypogravity. We have no data on long-term survival in 0.4 G. NASA biomedical people I interviewed all said they thought it was THE showstopper. Radiation - go underground. But you can't "turn up the gravity."
September 12, 2024 at 9:52 PM
That's right, though we know what to do to reduce radiation exposure, so I think hypogravity (any G below 1) is the real showstopper - especially on other worlds. We don't have gravity generators. Even if you buried your Mars colony a km down you'd still have to confront the effects of 0.3 G. /1
June 18, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Go underground to thwart radiation, thicken atmosphere (it would take many millenia), or use artificial magnetic field. Problem is hypogravity - we have no data on long-term effects on humans of 0.4 G. We can't increase Mars' G pull. We need research before we can sensibly talk about living on Mars.
September 12, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Skipping in reduced gravity

journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
August 16, 2024 at 6:27 PM
## Hyper-Precise Bone Density Loss Prediction & Countermeasure Optimization in Deep-Space Hypogravity Environments via Multi-Modal Temporal Sequence Analysis

**Abstract:** Prolonged exposure to reduced gravity environments, a defining characteristic of deep-space habitation, presents significant…
## Hyper-Precise Bone Density Loss Prediction & Countermeasure Optimization in Deep-Space Hypogravity Environments via Multi-Modal Temporal Sequence Analysis
**Abstract:** Prolonged exposure to reduced gravity environments, a defining characteristic of deep-space habitation, presents significant risks to human skeletal health. This paper introduces a novel, immediately deployable framework for hyper-precise prediction of bone density loss (BDL) and personalized countermeasures optimization in astronauts during extended missions. Leveraging established temporal sequence analysis techniques, coupled with a multi-modal data ingestion and normalization layer, this system achieves unprecedented accuracy in BDL forecasting and dynamically adjusts countermeasures (e.g., resistive exercise protocols, pharmaceutical interventions) to mitigate adverse effects.
freederia.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:10 AM
there's one person doing more research on it-don't know what she's up to now as i m not using X at the moment. but hypogravity does have promise. think of it the way when body gets something of what's missing, it ends up aligning to what it does normally. zero g is something u just can't do normal
March 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
In this Methods and Techniques article, Nick Caplan et al. (@northumbriauni.bsky.social, @oxfordphysics.bsky.social, Universidade de Lisboa) discuss hypogravity simulation using the Variable Gravity Suspension System in a technical report

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April 22, 2026 at 1:03 PM