Among all tropes of body horror, perhaps there is nothing more frightening than an astronaut losing his vision while in zero g-force environment. It induces a complete confusion of all bodily orientations, as if you are a protoplasm being disembodied and dissipated into the void.
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During Alain Berthoz's NASA experiments, many astronauts quit after they put shoe box on their heads in zero gravity.
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Yes, Berthoz's The Brain's Sense of Movement.
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of all outbreak movies 'blindness (2008)' is probably the most unbearable to watch while speculative space-x colonialists need to worry about a wobbly brain syndrome.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5210371/ …
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Blindness is incapacitating enough, so as the damage to the vestibular system during the shell shock. But incurring both is a different story altogether.
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