Notice I didn't put Obama here. That's because radical Muslims are not Democrats. Democrats SUPPORT radical Muslims, but ISIS is not the Democrat party.
Posted on 08/22/2014 3:29:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA is planning to send rats to the International Space Station (ISS) for a longer duration of up to three months to better understand the long-term effects of micro-gravity on living organisms.
While rodents have flown on space shuttle flights in the past, those missions have only lasted a week or two.
The new mission, however, could range between 30 and 90 days, depending on the availability of spacecraft to ferry them on the round-trip, ‘Space.com’ reported.
“This will allow animals to be studied for longer period of time on space station missions,” said Julie Robinson, NASA’s chief scientist for the space station.
Robinson said of the 35 or so studies where rats have gone into space, few of them have gone for more than two weeks.
Wasn’t this done in 1960’s?
Aren’t there human beings who have been on the ISS for more than a year?
Monkeys would probably give a better determination of the effects on humans. They might even make useful permanent residents if they can be trained to perform simple tasks without pushing any wrong buttons.
Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days in space. The longest record.
Rats? Reid? Pelosi?
Notice I didn't put Obama here. That's because radical Muslims are not Democrats. Democrats SUPPORT radical Muslims, but ISIS is not the Democrat party.
Hopefully they’ll be demo-rats.
Can We start with Obambi,Wasserman-Schmuck, and, the Others?
Pelosi is going into space?
Love it. 17 Trillion in debt and NASA is flying rats into space.
Disappointed that it took six posts to properly frame the context of this article.
Rats, eh?
May we nominate several politicans for this experiment?
Send some RINOs too.
No. We’ll need the RINOs to run our cities. You know, like Giuliani did with NYC.
Sigh....We’re failing.
I was hoping that this was gonna be modeled after what the Golgafrinchans did.
In any “just world”, Pelosi and Reid would have jobs as telephone sanitizers.
The democrats are leaving?? YES!!!
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