Space station astronaut Matthias Maurer has demonstrated that microgravity conditions hardly help when it comes to untangling wired headphones.
If you’ve yet to ditch your wired headphones for a Bluetooth-enabled pair, you’ll probably be all too familiar with the frustrating process of untangling the multiple knots that mysteriously form whenever you put them away.
But you can take comfort in the knowledge that even astronauts have to deal with such trivial matters from time to time, evidenced by a video posted this week by International Space Station inhabitant Matthias Maurer. Are headphones easier to untangle in space or on Earth? 🤔 @ASI_spazio's Acoustic Diagnostics tests the impact of microgravity on our hearing using a special headset. Its sensors measure the movement of our ear hairs in response to sound 👂 #CosmicKiss https://t.co/UpiwJM6MWy pic.twitter.com/4D9ZLAuzB8 And no, Maurer’s untangling challenge wasn’t the basis of some niche space experiment to find out if microgravity conditions aid the unscrambling process .
The headset you see in Maurer’s video is fitted with sensors that measure the movement of hairs inside the ear as they respond to sound. Specifically, the headphones monitor what are known as otoacoustic emissions .
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