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NASA to start radiating monkeys
PMSNBC ^ | Thu 29 Oct 2009 | Irene Klotz

Posted on 10/29/2009 2:28:46 PM PDT by Willie Green

Tests aim to see how radioactive environment of space impacts humans

NASA is stepping up its space radiation studies with a round of experiments that for the first time in decades will use monkeys as subjects.

The point of the experiments is to understand how the harsh radioactive environment of space affects human bodies and behavior and what countermeasures can be developed to make long-duration spaceflight safe for travelers beyond Earth's protective magnetic shield.

For the new study, 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys will be exposed to a low dose of the type of radiation that astronauts traveling to Mars can expect to encounter.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


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1 posted on 10/29/2009 2:28:46 PM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green

I feel SURE I can guess at the content of that removed post..! hahahhaha..!


3 posted on 10/29/2009 2:36:54 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Willie Green
NOOOOOO! Not radioactive monkeys!

grin

4 posted on 10/29/2009 2:38:04 PM PDT by Rafterman ("If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." -- Curtis LeMay)
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To: Willie Green

C’mon, moderator. What’d he say?

LOL


5 posted on 10/29/2009 2:39:47 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
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To: Willie Green

It’s about damn time.


6 posted on 10/29/2009 2:40:17 PM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: Willie Green

The first image I got from that headline was monkeys all radiating outward from a central point inside NASA.


7 posted on 10/29/2009 2:41:01 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: Willie Green

I’m willing to believe that NASA might be *irradiating* monkeys, but I’d be really surprised if all of sudden there are emissions of monkeys from some source at a NASA facility.


8 posted on 10/29/2009 2:41:35 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: Willie Green

ping for later


9 posted on 10/29/2009 2:42:18 PM PDT by DBrow (Thank You Al Gore You Saved Earth!)
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To: Willie Green

Those poor monkeys.


10 posted on 10/29/2009 2:43:00 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
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To: Willie Green

NASA is finally getting serious about Mars? ‘Bout time. Doesn’t matter, though; PETA will put a stop to that in a hurry.


11 posted on 10/29/2009 2:43:31 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (PETRAEUS IN 2012 ..... PETRAEUS IN 2012 ..... PETRAEUS IN 2012)
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To: Willie Green

Irradiating monkeys. If NASA began radiating monkeys, it would be a far different and more interesting phenomena.


12 posted on 10/29/2009 2:44:20 PM PDT by Flightdeck (Go Longhorns)
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To: Willie Green
We'll need to know that stuff if we ever go to the moon!

Troublemaker? Me? Never...

13 posted on 10/29/2009 2:48:12 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Carl LaFong
It’s about damn time.

You took the words right out of my mouth!

14 posted on 10/29/2009 2:50:39 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" - Job 13:15)
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Those poor monkeys.

I agree 100%

Somebody needs to give these mad-scientists at NASA the heave-ho.
We shouldn't be dreaming about sending people to Mars anyway,
It's way too distant and dangerous.

If they want to explore Mars, they can do it with a swarm of high-tech nano-bots for a lot less money.

Save the Monkeys!!!

15 posted on 10/29/2009 2:50:41 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green

life-imitates-Matthew-Broderick-movie

(I think I’ll play hooky tomorrow...)


16 posted on 10/29/2009 2:51:37 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Oh, I get it... They will be irradiating monkeys... I was wondering how NASA was going to radiate monkeys... I know that some objects radiate heat, others light... But monkeys?

Mark

17 posted on 10/29/2009 2:53:16 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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LMAO at this thread. I love unintentional and obscure humor.

....radiating monkeys.....LOL


18 posted on 10/29/2009 2:56:31 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
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To: Willie Green

why monkeys? can’t we start with a lower life form like liberals?


19 posted on 10/29/2009 2:56:54 PM PDT by wiggen (Never in the history of our great country have the people had less representation than they do today)
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To: Willie Green
The skit "Monkeys In Outer Space" from Robot Chicken on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim (not necessarily child or work friendly).
20 posted on 10/29/2009 2:57:04 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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