Posted on 02/24/2009 6:37:13 PM PST by JoeProBono
Sometimes it's just really hard to kill a bug.
According to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, a mosquito managed to live 18 months clinging to the outside of the International Space Station, without any food, being bombarded by radiation and enduring fluctuating temperatures ranging from minus 230 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
"We brought him back to Earth. He is alive, and his feet are moving," Anatoly Grigoryev of the Russian Academy of Sciences told RIA Novosti.
The buzzing bug was part of a larger experiment in which bacteria, barley seeds, small crustaceans and larval insects were placed in a container strapped to the exterior of the space station, which orbits in zero gravity about 200 miles above the surface of the Earth.
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“....live 18 months...
BS! That is far beyond their natural life cycle.
> a mosquito managed to live 18 months clinging to the outside of the International Space Station, without any food, being bombarded by radiation and enduring fluctuating temperatures ranging from minus 230 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
That must be one pissed off mosquito.
May have been frozen for that duration.
cryo...?
its not like they have any real brain matter to lose. their just insticts
But does it still sing like Yoko Ono?
It’s the mosquito from outer space. So this proves that a mosquito might have somehow been transported to Earth from some other planet to populate the Earth—with mosquitos.
The seeds, crustaceans, barley, and other insects were never found. Hmm. No wonder the mosquito survived. Survival of the fittest.
A Chernobyl mosquito, perhaps?
Freaky. I’d expect this kind of survival from a cockroach or a Twinkie, but a mosquito??
I could believe it if the creature was thawed out from 18 months in the antarctic but the radiation and constant extreme heat/ extreme cold of near space seems to me would preclude it from surviving.
ping?
I agree. It would be completely dessicated.
BS meter alert
I’d say freeze-dried.
I agree with a former poster; B-S!
In before the first democrat joke...
Some days, just being alive is a pretty big deal :)
...a mosquito managed to live 18 months clinging to the outside of the International Space Station, without any food, being bombarded by radiation and enduring fluctuating temperatures ranging from minus 230 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit.This is malarias, er, hilarious. Astounding (to say the least) if true, but I find it mighty difficult to believe. Thanks BBell!
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