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Fruit Flies on the ISS

Posted July 15, 2014 1:23 PM

From Space News From SpaceDaily.Com:

Fruit flies are bug eyed and spindly, they love rotten bananas, and, following orders from their pin-sized brains, they can lay hundreds of eggs every day. We have a lot in common.

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07/16/2014 11:23 AM

Gravity affects large objects much more than small objects due to the cube/square relationship. Fruit flies are so small that I expect they don't even notice that there is no gravity on the ISS.
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07/16/2014 11:39 AM

who left the bananas out?

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