A bizarre finding has raised some new questions about space travel and the effect it has on humans after NASA's Twins Study revealed that 7% of astronaut Scott Kelly's genes did not return to normal after he returned from his year in space.
The study compared the genes of Kelly before and after he spent a year in space as well as an extensive comparison to his identical twin brother Mark's genes. Scott Kelly spent a year aboard the International Space Station. Kelly joked on Twitter about how excited he was he no longer had to call his twin his identical twin brother anymore.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What? My DNA changed by 7%! Who knew? I just learned about it in this article. This could be good news! I no longer have to call <a href="https://twitter.com/ShuttleCDRKelly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShuttleCDRKelly</a> my identical twin brother anymore. <a href="https://t.co/6idMFtu7l5">https://t.co/6idMFtu7l5</a></p>— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/972620001340346368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Kelly's tweet isn't wrong, NASA's study confirmed that Kelly's DNA no longer matches his identical twin brother's. The study examined the transformation of 7% of Scott's DNA which suggests that longer-term changes in genes related to at least five biological pathways and functions.
The latest results from the two of a kind study with the Kelly twins were released at the 2018 Investigator's Workshop for NASA's Human Research Program in January. The first round of the study's results was published at the 2017 Investigator's Workshop. The study has now come full-circle and shed a little more light on our understanding of space.
Chris Mason of Weill Cornell Medicine also reported on Scott's "space genes" while confirming the results of his own separate NASA study last year. While most of Scott's genes returned to normal after his return from space, 93% to be exact, there was still a small subset of several hundred "space genes" which were still disrupted.
It is theorized these mutations are found only after spaceflight due to the stresses of space travel.
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@20623 Oh, I see. You're one of those tinfoil hat types who thinks NASA is just a big government conspiracy. Never mind peer-reviewed studies based on the scientific method
@20625
The scientific method is a jewish trick used to control the masses and it seems you are already indoctrinated.
First of all noticed you ignored all the evidence Gabby Gifford is a lying sack of shit (not exactly surprising) second if you believe scientific method is the best way of determining fact you’re already halfway to being a flat earther. Every “repeatable” experiment ever performed proves a flat, stationary earth while only faith based claims and strawmen prove otherwise. Example: ships disappearing “below” the horizon prove curvature, right? So if this can be falsified it can no longer be considered “proof”.
Welcome to scientific method. Now apply the same logic to other so called proofs in the current relativistic model OR use it to debunk flat earth, stay intellectually honest and you’ll be unplugged from the matrix in no time! Maybe then you can put your writing talents to use beyond parroting authority prescribed talking points.
The guy is a bullshit artist married to an even bigger bullshit artist. Why don’t you guys try some real journalism instead of being facebook tier all the time?
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