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Leisher wrote:

Troy wrote: We'll need some specific proteins/aminos acid or we can't survive long-term in space. Basically like the Jurassic park story line, but for humans.

We'll learn to simulate it.

I'm betting they discover that the lack of gravity is the culprit behind the changing DNA. And possibly the lack of sunlight?

What really happened is that 7 percent of the way Kelly’s DNA is expressed changed after space travel, as Daniela Bezdan, research director of the Mason Laboratory of Integrative Genomics at Weill Cornell Medicine, explained in a tweet and confirmed in an email to Gizmodo. This is further confirmed in an expanded statement from Chris Mason, who writes that, while there were some mutations in both twins’ DNA after spaceflight, “although 93% of genes’ expression, returned to normal postflight, a subset of several hundred ‘space genes’ were still disrupted after return to Earth,” emphasis mine.

This kind of change is what’s known as epigenetic, and it is something very different.

Cakedaddy wrote: Lack of gravity? There's no gravity in space?

His attribute is the lightning bolt and the eagle is both his symbol and his messenger.... The Romans regarded Jupiter as the equivalent of Greek Zeus... [Zeus is] often referred to as the “Father of Gods and men”, he is a sky god who controls lightning (often using it as a weapon) and thunder. Zeus is king of Mount Olympus, the home of Greek gods, where he rules the world and imposes his will onto gods and mortals alike.

GORDON wrote: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."