If roaches and insects can survive for a long time without air, why don;'t we realease some bugs into space and see if they evolve or how about one of our astruanuts realse AIDS or HIV bacteria or any bacteria in space and see if it evolves into something.
2006-08-21 09:33:47 · 23 answers · asked by stewart_pittman 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Or a type of experiment where the roaches are in an aquairum with small holes that opens up into outter space and see how the roaches react. Giving them food and water, and allow them to have babies and see iof the babies can survive in outter space. Or do the same thing with AIDS or bactreria.
2006-08-21 09:46:29 · update #1
How come one ofyou said sapce is cold and the other said space is hot? Which is it hot or cold?
2006-08-21 09:47:42 · update #2
it can't evolve,
even if bugs and insects can survive without oxygen for a long time, they would need it to evolve.
And a disease wouldn't be able to evolve without oxygen either
not to mention that they would freeze in the vacuum of space.
2006-08-21 09:43:43 · answer #1 · answered by dinizle26 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is nice to have a curious mind. But you need to study enough to ask questions that are meaningful. When you make a lot of mistakes in your questions, it makes them useless and impossible to answer. Here are some errors you made in your question, so that you can at least learn something from it:
1. Roaches and insects can not live a long time without air. Some of them can live with their heads cut off, but they still have a small nervous system in the rest of their body to survive a little while until they starve.
2. Even if an insect could live without air - which they can't - they can't live without air-pressure. On Earth the pressure is equalized inside and outside of the body. that means the body does not explode from internal pressure because outside pressure is keeping it inside. If you put them into space the pressure outside is too low and their bodies will explode from the internal pressure.
3. Evolution takes much longer than the time available for science experiments in orbit. What you suggest is a one step forced evolution: evolve or die! Well, they will just die.
4. AIDS and HIV are not bacteria. AIDS is a complex of disease symptoms which are caused by the breakdown of the body's immune system. It is not a thing to be released. It is a disease. HIV is not a bacteria. HIV is a virus. A bacteria is a one celled living animal. A virus is a particle of DNA or RNA that can disrupt the life of living cells. HIV can not survive in air. It can not survive in space either.
;-D Better questions get better answers.
2006-08-28 00:02:28 · answer #2 · answered by China Jon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roaches and insects can not live a long time without air. Some of them can live with their heads cut off, but they still have a small nervous system in the rest of their body to survive a little while until they starve.
Evolution takes much longer than the time available for science experiments in orbit. What you suggest is a one step forced evolution: evolve or die! Well, they will just die.
AIDS and HIV are not bacteria. AIDS is a complex of disease symptoms which are caused by the breakdown of the body's immune system. It is not a thing to be released. It is a disease. HIV is not a bacteria. HIV is a virus.
2006-08-28 05:05:38 · answer #3 · answered by Bogdan Z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cockroaches aren't magic. The reason they can live for a long time without oxygen (like all insects) is because they lack a complex brain. They just don't need as much oxygen as a 'thinking' animal would. Roaches are basically little biological robots.
As for going into space, you have to remember that within the solar system, the sunlight would shine with full force (because of no filtration) and would fry them. Outside the solar system, far from the sun, they would freeze.
Why would we want to release AIDS into outer space? Unless, of course, there are junkies and ******* out there.
2006-08-29 02:38:20 · answer #4 · answered by brainzrgood4u 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most obvious reason would be that organisms don't evolve, for lack of a better expression, in a vacuum. Organisms evolve in response to stimuli such as weather and the presence of other organisms. And if you literally mean "into space," and not "on a spacecraft," the organisms have a lot more to worry about than lack of air; outer space is freezing cold and bathed in unfiltered UV radiation, and vacuum pressure makes things explode. And even if these organisms are technically "alive" without air (the truth of which I cannot gauge), I doubt that they would be engaging in reproductive behavior.
2006-08-21 09:45:11 · answer #5 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of no protection from the sun's harsh rays and heat in space the cockroaches would cook in space, if their not in the sun's heat and light then they'd freeze. And you can't send all cockroaches in space, and what's the point of sending AIDS into space? There still is a huge epidemic down here on Earth.
So really, the reason why we don't do that is because we know the outcomes to be completly pointless and a waste of our money.
2006-08-21 09:45:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a waste of tax-payer dollars. I can think of much better things then sending cockroaches and viruses to space. As for your last question, space is very cold. A space suit has 4 pairs of underwear to protect against the cold.
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2016-11-26 21:46:56 · answer #8 · answered by chaplean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AIDS is kinda like a Champagne glass. It's fragile. In fact, it can't live more than 7 minutes outside the body. Roaches are what hippies smoke. Astronauts don't smoke weed!
2006-08-28 09:47:17 · answer #9 · answered by thewordofgodisjesus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The primary reason is there would be no scientific value to such an experiment. The secondary reason is that everything you have proposed can be done on the ground in a thermal-vacuum chamber. And it still isn't done because of reason #1: there is no point whatsoever to such an exercise.
2006-08-21 10:55:21 · answer #10 · answered by paulie_biggs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋