luke strawwalker
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Just watching the NASA TV channel while doing laundry today. Been talking about the upcoming Antares launch to send the Cygnus resupply vehicle to ISS. Apparently one of the experiments on board is an ant colony, which will take up residence in a prepared habitat on board ISS. They will enter a colony area where they'll be studied as to their adaptation to microgee environment, then allowed to move on into a foraging area for some period of time, and then subsequently allowed into another foraging area beyond that. Schoolkids will monitor the ground "control group" experiment on the ground and the results compared. Apparently they're focusing on how the ants interact with one another and cooperative behavior changes in microgee compared to the ground control group.
I wonder what Dr. Zooch thinks of all this?? His ants have been working for years to infest an old satellite as part of their space program... https://www.klydemorris.com/strips.cfm?strip_ID=2385
Later! OL JR
I wonder what Dr. Zooch thinks of all this?? His ants have been working for years to infest an old satellite as part of their space program... https://www.klydemorris.com/strips.cfm?strip_ID=2385
Later! OL JR