Space… it’s big, it’s confusing, and there isn’t any gravity! That’s why we have a dedicated team of people up in the International Space Station running all kinds of experiments to try and figure out just what the heck is even going on up there.
Space… it’s big, it’s confusing, and there isn’t any gravity! That’s why we have a dedicated team of people up in the International Space Station running all kinds of experiments to try and figure out just what the heck is even going on up there.
You truly have no idea how much of us ordering Popeye’s I had to cut out of this. This was definitely our longest recording session ever and I was livid!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Chicken Fat
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/aafex_biofuels.html
Bone loss
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=187
Perfume
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/spacescents_feature.html
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff2002/ch_1.html
[Fact Off]
Wake Shield Facility
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19920014405
https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/pg46s95.html
https://uwaterloo.ca/molecular-beam-epitaxy/about/what-epitaxy
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/03jan_bioniceyes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0042207X01003839
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457650000148X
Image: https://archive.org/details/STS069-724-095
Mouse sperm experiment
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5988
http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/theme/second/pmlatter/spacepup/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Human pregnancy
https://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation/pdf/prenatal.pdf
https://www.livescience.com/33047-space-sex-pregnancy.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/can-women-get-pregnant-in-space-3072590
NASA sperm study
https://futurism.com/sperm-space-nasa
Space childbirth startup
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/space-childbirth-babies/579064/
Other animal development
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/what-space-jellyfish-tell-us-about-interplanetary-travel/
https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/space-born-jellyfish-hate-life-earth/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnjkkw/making-babies-in-space-may-be-a-terrible-idea
[Butt One More Thing]
Flatworms in space