We all miss our loved ones and gases.
Posted on 05/22/2017 1:24:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
If humans ever want to live permanently in space, they will need to make sure they and any farm animals they bring with them can reproduce, said study senior author Teruhiko Wakayama, a reproductive biologist at the University of Yamanashi in Kofu, Japan, and his colleagues.
However, outer space is dangerous. For instance, the average daily radiation dose on the International Space Station (ISS) is more than 100 times higher than that on Earth, and could damage the sperm and eggs that give rise to most animal offspring, the researchers said.
To examine the damage that space radiation could do to potential animal offspring, the researchers shipped samples of freeze-dried mouse sperm into space. (Freeze-drying preserves items by rapidly freezing them and then subjecting them to a high vacuum that dehydrates them. Freeze-dried ice cream is often known as "astronaut ice cream.")
This mouse sperm was stored on the ISS for 288 days, from August 2013 to May 2014, at temperatures of minus 139 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 95 degrees Celsius). The sperm was then returned to Earth and compared with freeze-dried samples that were preserved on Earth during the same time under similar conditions.
The researchers found evidence that space-preserved sperm did experience slightly more DNA damage than Earth-preserved samples.
"This was a little bit surprising, because the storage period was only nine months," Wakayama told Space.com.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Yeah, but they really intend to do this for humans.
Quit trying to make sci-fi horror movies happen!
Oh great! Now they’re breeding Democrats in space.
How would that look on your resume?................
I wish micicles worked better. It sounds funny.
Freeze-Dried Space Sperm is the easy part!
The next step is to get Gluten-Free Freeze-Dried Space Sperm
Would mouse milker look better than cock teaser
at Rooster-Rama.
Soyuz Green is people!
Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: Gee, I *think* so, Brain, but where are we going to get handcuffs and a Little Bo-Peep outfit?
101 Frozen Pops.
“Freeze-dried ice cream is often known as “astronaut ice cream.”
After reading this comparison, freeze-dried ice cream will never be the same.
Depends on who or what is reading it!................
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