These high-tech buzzers may help astronauts avoid getting lost in space (video)

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Sharmila is a Seattle-based science journalist. She found her love for astronomy in Carl Sagan's The Pale Blue Dot and has been hooked ever since. She holds an MA in Journalism from Northeastern University and has been a contributing writer for Astronomy Magazine since 2017. Follow her on Twitter at @skuthunur.

Wearable tech which alerts astronauts of dangers could one day help astronauts from getting lost in space, but it would require a trust for technology deeper than what humans currently have.

For half the experiment, the space chair was positioned upright to mimic Earth's gravity and participants could use their natural gravitational cues to accurately orient themselves. To simulate zero gravity conditions, the participants were placed on their backs while still sitting in the chair, at which point the otoliths could no longer help determine speed or tilt.

"The question really is that if you put these devices on the human, how do you become one with it?" he said."Especially while disoriented, when you can't even trust what's inside your body, how then do you trust these external things?"

 

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