Comments on: Ants in space! https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ants-in-space/ Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:38:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ants-in-space/#comment-738492 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 07:38:42 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=33688#comment-738492 I have just one stupid question.

Why do we keep spending money and time testing these animals out in zero G condition when we know full well that by the time we start needing them in space it will be in an artificial gravity structure?

If we go ahead and build another station and its not under at least partial gravity then I believe we will not be taking a step forward but instead back.

]]> By: B Lewis https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ants-in-space/#comment-737376 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:36:15 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=33688#comment-737376 I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted Internet personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

]]> By: PeterF https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ants-in-space/#comment-737109 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:45:42 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=33688#comment-737109 Perhaps they were less efficient because they had come from a gravity environment and reacted as creatures in an alien environment. I wonder how this experiment will proceed with ants that have been raised for several generations in microgravity?
I’ve always wondered how an octopus would react to microgravity…There is speculation that they may be the most intelligent sea creature we know of.

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