Fruit flies werethe very first animals we transmit into space , way back in 1947 — yet we ’re still not done analyzing what happens to them in microgravity . We ’ve known for a while that when in “ zero - gravity , ” rainfly walk more quickly than they do planetside . The only problem is that we do n’t eff if this is due to the whole gravity matter , or if the fly ball are reacting to the launch preparation and extreme forces they ’re strike with on the way up .
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Well , now we know : it ’s unquestionably about soberness . research worker from the UK and Spain simulated lightness by levitating some flies usinga tops - stiff charismatic field — like the one project above , only with a fly instead of a levitated magnet . The investigator found that fly front walked faster in void soberness , and then slower in simulated two times normal sobriety .
So yes , flies develop diminished - scale major power in quad .
Photo by cjk2 ( learn to make your own magnetic levitation devicefrom his awesome tutorial )
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