Dec 8 2009The Miracle Of Life: Butterflies Born In Space

omg first!

Bwahaha we took them into space and they can't fly! How fuckin stupid are they!!

funny and sad all at once

omg fail!

DAMN YOUUU PROTEON!

makes you wonder what else they spend money on though. I mean now we know butterflies cant fly very well in space... SCIENCE!

GW this is cruel and unfair.... first post of the day and its blocked by the stupd school server.

I doubt they'd fly well but if those cheap ISS scientists gave the poor guys a little more room maybe they'd do alright.

psh, i'm not impressed
Homer J. did this years ago with ants

Umm...maybe they could have given the Butterflies more than 2 cubic feet to fly in if they actually wanted to find anything out. As far as I know, even butterflies need to spread their wings to fly, but I ain't no rocket scientist neither.

What is all over the screen? Butterfly poop? MLIG

Butterfloats??? Buttercan'tflies??? Butterfails??? Buttertards??? Butter...ok, ok...I'll stop.

Congrats baskotoiea

It's all gewd Bask GW gave you first. Is that a first?

TRY THAT FROM SPACE GW!

First post of the day is essentially butterflies flapping their wings to know avail. You could of posted it like 'Stoned butterflies can't fly; have the munchies' and it would have been a little funnier. Just sayin...

@ 11 Hahahahah Butterfloats. Thanks or that.

Seriously? All four of you and GEEKOLOGIE WRITER!? For shame good sirs. Obviously you can see that these butterflies has two major reasons that they can't fly, and it's not the zero gravity. For one thing... THE TANK IS TOO SMALL! from just the lack of bare minimum wingspan space to the distance needed to actually record and study flight in space, these butterflies are boxed in. And if that wasn't enough, the second major obstacle holding them back is the fact that there is water in the tank causing their wings to stick to the walls when touched. This is way I don't comment... because of stupid shit all all these readers has to say, but you GW... I'm disappointed.

For them this is like driving your F-Zero machine through Rome's city center.

They fly poorly you say... they fly very well if you ask me. Now if only those idiots had given the butterflies more space (pun intended).... It's no friggin' rocket science to know that they'd fly very well as long as they have enough room to shoot about.

@16, you popped your comment cherry by being a douche. Classy.

@16 Got a quarter? Call NASA and let them know how to do their job... just sayin

are those poo balls

@11 Reminds me of "Once Upon a Time in Mexico"..... "Are you a Mexi-can? Or a Mexi-can't?"

@21
Nice tune.
Something my brother taught me...I killed him.

Wow couldn't they have picked something else that doesn't have wings. The poor thing goes through a metamorphosis only to me help captive in a stupid box in space. HUGE FAIL.........

@22 Not a song. Its a movie with Johnny Depp, Selma Hayek and Antonio Banderas

what do you mean fly??? there is no room for flight that's just plain retarded... spend all that time and money to create this project only to give them enough room to move their wings and no flight? for godsakes their shit is flying all around them more then they are.

@6
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@18 lol

The reason they can't fly is because they're not in a bubble. If butterflies can fly in Bikini Bottom in a bubble then they can surely fly in a bubble in space.

These videos were very educational for me.

For starters, up until now I wasn't even aware butterflies actually pooped. And quite frequently, apparently.

Secondly, @16 I agree with the words you say, but you don't have to take that tone of voice with us. Stop being such a classy asshole (or "classhole").

Thirdly, @18 and @19: Thanks for making me laugh this morning. MLIG

@24
Yeah...I know. The line about "the tune" is right around the whole "mexi-can/mexi-can't" line.

Are you an a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T? (Sands)
I'm a MexiCAN (Cucuy)
Good, then do as I say (Sands)
Nice tune (Sands to El Mariachi)
Something my brother taught me, I killed him (El Mariachi)

Something like that anyway.

@30 "Aaaaaah, I see," says the blind man as he pisses into the wind, "its all coming back to me"

I am sure the butterflys are thinking. " What the hell? Why did I get stupid wings when I was meant to live in this upside down world."
It's really amazing how simple insects like this are products of earth evolution. Anywhere else, it seems silly. It's like us swimming when we don't have fins.

A much better experiment would be to observe how a polar bear hunts prey (read: cosmonaut) in space. The hope for saving the species and taking care of a few Reds at the same time - "two birds, one stone" people.

@33
Yeah...but re-entry can be a bitch.
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/11/graphic_polar_bears_falling_fr.php

Just sayin...

Your tax dollars at work....Except for you @ 16, you live with your mother.....but then again so do I, ZING!

*that is I live with YOUR mother......dang it. Can I start over?

how do you write about butterflies in space and not mention space frass? those cages seemed brimming with it.

so they wer bornt in speces? i wanna see what happened when they experienced gravity for the first time after that

well of course they're going to suck if they don't even have room to open their wings!

so they wer bornt in speces? i wanna see what happened when they experienced gravity for the first time after that..

that was some serious sincronization going on there at the end, beautiful, just beautiful. just kidding, it was me who started the fire in mexico or whatever that killed them all. BUTTERFLY STEW (crunchy but not the best after taste, like bacon, minus the bad after taste, plus the good after taste, and plus the robot killing powers) still got some in the fridge.

why does the tank look like a shit storm?

if a buttlerfly shits in space, does it make a smell?
or
in space, no one can hear you dropping cute lil butterfly deuces...

I imagined the second video's free floating chrysalis screaming in abject terror the entire time.
"AUUUUUUUUUUGHhhhhh...."

anyone else think that they just need a little more "space" HAHA. they look a little cramped.

It must be completely disorientating for them, how AWESOME