Saturday night

Some NASA documentary on about the astronaut Kelly that spent a year in orbit. Meaning he never walked for a year. If you don't walk for a year your muscles will atrophy. Interesting Ben facts. Around age 17 I spent 4-6 weeks of summer holiday wearing the exact same underwear EVERYDAY AND NIGHT. Granted I went swimming everyday in that underwear. But there was ZERO soap involved and a lot of chlorine. It was like a science experiment. After bragging about it to one of my buddies of the day. He was a very big guy, half Samoan half Caucasian. He tried using force to remove said underwear from my backpack,  still unwashed after six weeks, a trophy to the triumph of Will to Power. Josh wanted to seize them by force and show them off to Rebecca and Ann, two of our clique of the day present (they both seemed mildly curious about what state said underwear might be in). But it was an unreasonable search and seizure as the Americans would say. This Josh has family in LA by the way... Plenty of Samoans there. Some adrenal super strength came forward and I pinned Josh down, uncharacteristically, on this occasion. It was a fine achievement if you consider the state of the underwear too.

Anyway. Muscles atrophying after not walking for a year. That's going to be more pronounced in zero gravity... For sure. Still being a hermit shut in for a year, avoiding walking as much as possible... While having a depressive effect due to lack of exercise amongst other things... Might actually be good preparation for space. Maybe that's how the Russians do it.