17 March

Shouldn’t the fact that astronauts like this come home to Earth often with irreversibly damaged bodies tell us we’re misunderstanding gravity? You’re in space too, space doesn’t start outside the atmosphere. Try this? You’re floating in space as much as they are. With one difference, you have a huge planet coming UP underneath you. Coming into contact with that planet doesn’t stop you floating, it just means you have that huge mass pushing UP into you, all day, as you float. Change your baseline to floating in everything you do, but with Earth pushing up into you as you float around. It’s a fundamentally different experience, and takes practice. You have to abandon the idea that here on the ground you’re pulled down by gravity. These astronauts have as much gravity on them as you do, and they’re floating.