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NASA to Bomb Monkeys with Gamma Radiation
Gizmodo ^
| 11/13/09
Posted on 11/14/2009 8:51:16 AM PST by KevinDavis
Dear NASA, I love you, but come on... Monkey radiation tests? What is this? The 50s? Are you going to resuscitate J. Edgar Hoover next? Didn't you guys see Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt saving the monkeys in Project X?
That's what NASA is planing to do: Use squirrel monkeys to test the possible effect of radiation in humans for long-term space missions. This is the first time the agency is going to test with monkeys since the days of the Mercury Project.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: monkeys; space
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To: KevinDavis
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posted on
11/14/2009 2:14:17 PM PST
by
Young Werther
("Quae Cum Ita Sunt - Julius Caesar "Since these things are so!")
To: bgill
"... just send the US Congress into space."
I second that.
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posted on
11/14/2009 2:21:54 PM PST
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LiberConservative
("Sarah Palin irritates all the right people." -Dennis Miller)
To: KevinDavis
So, NASA is gonna spank the monkey?
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11/15/2009 3:52:08 PM PST
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colorado tanker
(What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
To: KevinDavis
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