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Astronaut Scott Kelly Now Has Different DNA Than His Identical Twin Brother After One Year In Space
CBS4 Denver ^
| 3-14-2018
| CBS Staff
Posted on 03/14/2018 5:10:38 PM PDT by goldendelicious
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To: rightwingcrazy
he aged a few milliseconds less due to relativistic effects Not only that, as I recall, longer telomeres mean a longer lifespan. A little bit is lost when genes split to form new cells or something like that. So longer is better. Interesting. I wonder if the tradeoff from increased cancer risk evens it out.
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posted on
03/14/2018 6:33:39 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
To: goldendelicious
Does this mean that he came back and joined the NRA?
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posted on
03/14/2018 6:36:33 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
To: goldendelicious
So what we’re saying then is that they’re both mutants now?
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posted on
03/14/2018 6:37:52 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
To: goldendelicious
Oh my goodness, don’t tell me there.......are TWO of these guys!!
One is plenty.
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posted on
03/14/2018 6:39:28 PM PDT
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Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: Defiant
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posted on
03/14/2018 6:39:58 PM PDT
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Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: rightwingcrazy
Also, GPS clocks run faster than Earth-bound clocks, but they are at a higher altitude than the space station.
To: goldendelicious
So the aliens really are shorter because of space travel./s
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posted on
03/14/2018 6:50:43 PM PDT
by
fatima
(Free Hugs Today :))
To: goldendelicious
Their mom says, “Yeah... space. It was because of outer space that they have different DNA”.
LOL
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posted on
03/14/2018 6:51:00 PM PDT
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DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: goldendelicious
bone density is overrated
Thats what all the Belters say. (The Expanse reference)
To: Bonemaker
damn straight. Semper Fi.
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posted on
03/14/2018 6:56:20 PM PDT
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Shadowstrike
(Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
To: Kickass Conservative
yeah, that ain’t gonna happen.
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posted on
03/14/2018 6:57:52 PM PDT
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Shadowstrike
(Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
To: goldendelicious
Are we to start calling him Chelsea Kelly, now?
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posted on
03/14/2018 7:00:52 PM PDT
by
Howie66
("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
To: Pearls Before Swine
He will soon look like this.
To: Shadowstrike
What the hell is it with these damned Swabbies?
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03/14/2018 7:04:35 PM PDT
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Howie66
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To: kosciusko51
“Also, GPS clocks run faster than Earth-bound clocks, but they are at a higher altitude than the space station.”
Both effects are relevant; you have to put pencil to paper to figure out which wins out. This mission inspired a buzz about the twin paradox a while back; there were some articles published where they worked out the math for us ;)
To: kosciusko51
Time slows down due to boredom.
Everyone can relate to that.
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posted on
03/14/2018 7:07:59 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: rightwingcrazy
To: goldendelicious
Interesting study. I would be neat if another pair of twins could duplicate the experiments to broaden to data base. By the way, Scott Kelly and Mikhail Korniyenko fell 25 days shy of a full year in space. Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov DID spend a full year in space. Valery Polyakov spent fourteen months aloft on a single spaceflight, the all time record for a single flight.
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posted on
03/14/2018 7:20:36 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
To: dadfly
LOL Can see the headlines now
MAN’s twin overnight has a complete gender change to become a female.
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posted on
03/14/2018 7:32:44 PM PDT
by
V K Lee
(Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
To: goldendelicious
Epigenetics, baby! So cool.
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posted on
03/14/2018 7:33:56 PM PDT
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Yaelle
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