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SPACE is often described as “the final frontier”, and despite leaps and bounds in technology, much of the extraterrestrial life is still alien to humans.
Is it true that the design of these suits was inspired by an animal known for its towering height and gentle demeanour – the giraffe?Among the many animals on Earth, the giraffe is one of the more alien-looking creatures. It makes a weird sort of sense, then, that they have contributed much to the advancement of space travel.
The laws of physics dictate that whenever a giraffe lowers its neck, all that blood would go rushing to its head, raising the pressure in its brain to dangerous levels . For context, human bodies are adapted to suit the 1 g environment found on Earth, but astronauts must deal with two extremes: launch and re-entry forces of up to 6 g, and zero-gravity in space.
Space suit engineers took cues from this unique physiology of the giraffe, studying how their bodies prevent excessive blood flow to and from the brain and applying similar principles to the development of anti-gravity suits.
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