The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: ABX on January 31, 2017, 10:10:53 pm
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In 2015 and 2016, NASA conducted a unique experiment on twin astronauts, where one was monitored while in space and the other was on the ground. Now, the first early results from this Twins Study have been revealed.
The experiment involved astronaut Scott Kelly and his brother Mark, a former astronaut. Scott spent a year on the International Space Station (ISS) between March 2015 and March 2016, while his brother Mark remained on Earth. During that time, tests were performed on each of them to compare genetic differences between the two......
http://www.iflscience.com/space/first-results-from-nasas-twins-experiment-surprise-scientists/
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interesting
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It is interesting. I look forward to reading more.
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At first I thought they had done a test of the old physics class thought experiment with twins where one stays on Earth and the other travels in a large loop at a speed that is a significant percentage of the speed of light, to see if the traveling twin ages less than the twin who stayed on Earth.