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'Mouse-Tronaughts' to Test Low-Gravity in Space
RandBlade writes "The Telegraph has an article about plans to launch mice into space with simulated low-gravity for five weeks, to test the effects of low-gravity on their bodies. This "will be the first time mammals of any kind have lived in partial gravity for an extended period." Hopes are that this will provide information useful for plans to launch men to Mars, which has one-third of the gravity of Earth."
RTFA... partial gravity != microgravity.
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The point is: there is no documented experiment of humans living in partial gravity for an extended period.
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Or you could try reading the article. Partial gravity is not the same as a weightless environment.
*thwap*
zero gravity != partial gravity
Go thwap yourself then. Gravity is never equal to zero. Every object in the universe attracts every other. If you have a calculator, determine the force from gravity applied to a human on earth. Then, calculate again from 1,000 km away. It's a small difference.
In orbit, you experience weightlessness. IE, if you are travelling at 20,000 km/hour around the earth, and everything else on your spaceship is travelling at the same velocity, from your point of view you experience weightlessness. From earth, watching the spacecraft, everything looks normal.
Go read a high school physics book, will you? Pay attention to frames of reference.
Actually astrum (star), is Latin. And nauta is Latin for sailor. So you need the Latin word for mouse which is mus (pronounced like the English word moose).
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