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Having been in Earth orbit for a year, the 53-year-old American astronaut Scott Kelly is 5 centimeters taller. Over these 12 months other amazing changes took place in his body. To identify them, scientists compared Scott’s health indicators with physiological indicators of his twin brother Mark.
In the past, Mark was also an astronaut, but he is more our the planet does not leave. This allowed NASA to hold a unique an experiment by sending one twin into space and leaving another on Earth, to subsequently compare their health status. Скоттreturned from flight in early March 2016, and since then American researchers are intensively studying this difference.
It turned out that changes in muscle, growth, bones and cycles sleep are far from the only consequences of prolonged human stay outside our atmosphere. Experts unexpectedly found twins differences in gene expression. More than 200 thousand Scott Kelly ribonucleic acid molecules have undergone a change. In addition, the astronaut had an elongation of telomeres end sections of chromosomes responsible for the aging of the body. However, on Earth, they, unfortunately, quickly returned to normal, which is not tell about other genetic changes.
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Specialists of the American National Space Agency suggest that experimental explorer had irreversible genetic changes directly related to stay in space. Scientists have already managed to give this phenomenon name – “cosmic gene”.
The “cosmic gene” is an insurmountable obstacle to space travel
It is strange that NASA representatives refuse to voice the most obvious thing: a human being is simply not capable For a long time to be outside the home planet. It seems that gene mutations can be more serious? And it’s happened in low Earth orbit, and what “miracles” will begin with astronauts in outer space, even hard to imagine? To anyone who will be sent to conquer, for example, Mars and other planets, obviously threatens a long painful death.
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And what’s still surprising: more than a year and a half have passed, as Scott Kelly returned to Earth from his lengthy “business trip”, and studies of its consequences are not visible and end. Although, recall NASA leadership in September 2016 convinced the press that journalists are in a hurry to find out what the experiment showed a long stay of man in space, they say, for this we need the same year the astronaut was fully adapted to terrestrial conditions. But Scott Kelly, apparently, has not adapted to them so far, and Does it adapt at all? ..
Definitely: aliens travel in limitless the space of the universe is completely different than us. They know some innermost secrets of such movements, to which we still have to grow and grow…
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