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Well, since they never really lived (and definitely never flew) in an environment with gravity, they wouldn't know that anything was different, and I suspect that they fly the same in zero-gravity as butterflies on Earth fly here, since they were raised completely in this environment and their bodies would have matured accordingly.
01:21 AM
if a human was born in space, i speculate that the absence of gravity, bones and cartilage and muscle tissue, and the overall structure of our bodies would be impacted heavily. even if they did develop form, i doubt that it would be dense enough to even walk on, without the resistance of gravity
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Also, I could be completely wrong. I'm just speculating.
01:26 AM
Either way, that just helps prove my point. They still know how to fly just fine. Despite the different gravity, they can still fly.
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That's like living in a cloud of your own filth, and if I was religious, I'd hope my deity of choice had a little more dignity than that...
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*edit* 4.22 light years from the center of our little solar system, of which earth is about 15.8 micro-lightyears away from.
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Now, these meals could have been placed in someone's personal fixings and have been approved, but I doubt they were snuck on without anyone's knowledge.
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You've got to realize that the people who get to go into space these days (and especially in the early days) were the best and the brightest; Figuring out how to do something crazy (like playing golf on the moon) would have been worth it just to be able to do it.
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A turkey and fixings may not amount to much for you and I on earth, but to engines that have to accelerate that mass to 23,000mph a 13lb turkey is like asking a Viper to pull a 2,000lb trailer to 250mph.
If this story is actually true, its pretty horrifying. If somebody can collaborate to sneak an entire intact turkey into an extremely secure government facility without the ground crew knowing, whats to stop a corrupt astronaut from smuggling 13lbs of C4 onto the spacestation?
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To send stuff into space takes a lot of fuel. Fuel costs a lot of money.
I think estimates are about $10,000 per pound to launch something.
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