Proposal: Let Mice Have Sex In Space

savi writes: "Check out the story here. I bet they could get more funding if they did it with humans and offered to sell access to live-space-sex cams over the net. Heck, I'd pay." I just can't believe this hasn't been done before. The webcam idea would probably pay for this mission, even without humans. Before we get too settled on Mars though, it might be good to consider some recent evidence that there is already life there.

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Web Cam

[Faux_Pseudo]

If they put mice haveing sex in 0g then I might just be tempted to get a GUI just to see that.
But then I would also have to install one of those pointy clicky things as well.

Re:does it scale up

[pubudu]

allright 2 months may be enough for mice but whats needed is to know if can humans reproduce in low gravity and what effect does it have on babies to grow up in low gravity. and humans take long time to grow and all .. so does the 2 month study on mice and other animals scale up to years for humans ?

It doesn't scale up perfectly, but some things don't need to be scaled. If every mouse dies, that's bad. If, on the other hand, we notice no ill effects, that's good.

Of course, even if we were able to reproduce on Mars, I still think a colony would be a bad idea: our bodies are made to function under Earth-like conditions. Sending colonies to non-Earth-like planets is just begging for freaky adaptations. We have enough trouble not killing each other when we're all human; if the Martians are as close to us as monkeys, and we as close to them, what sort of politics can we expect in the future?

How Does That Work?

[Self Bias Resistor]

In space, there is no "on top" (just like there is no "up" in space).