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Howdoes gravity affect people

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Yes, gravity affects all things in the universe that have mass (and even some things that don't, like light.)

So sadly, as much fun as it would be to fly, your body is not exempt from gravity.

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Once in space an astronaut can grow because the gravity isn't pushing down on their spine. This leaves the spine free to extend. Also the main body part effected by this 0 gravity change is the spine, not so much the arms and legs.

When the astronauts get back on Earth, it takes about two weeks for them to go back to their normal size.

Overall, an astronaut can grow up to 7.5 centimeters (3 inches) in space.

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Keep in mind that I probably spelled a lot of things wrong. I might have also gotten a couple of body parts confused with others.

The human body developed ways of coping with gravity. For example, our bones and stuff keeps us from being crushed by gravity. The way our legs are made, we are able to walk, run, jump, etc under the force of gravity. Our spine is designed to keep our body straight and our heads up. Our capillaries have trouble pumping blood straight up to our brains because gravity stops it, so our body uses muscles such as the arms, legs, abs, etc to help the blood along its way. Our neck and spine also keeps our heads from falling down. We can move our arms and legs freely without much resistance caused by gravity.

There are so many other ways that gravity influenced the evolution of the human body, and obviously I'm not going to name all of them. If you look at any bodily functions and designs, the reasons they developed that way are always based on the circumstances (that includes gravity). For this reason, people have different colored skin (helps protect from sun).

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Gravity draggs the roots under whilst the roots try their best to pull upwards. This increases the plants strength and therefore it will grow quicker.

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if your on a building death if ground scars

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