I once sent this question into "Bill Nye the Science Guy" when I was little and he was somewhat cool to watch...yes even with his car covered in grass...strange...I know...but I never got an answer, Seriously, what happened to those little guys? Did they die, fly into space and turn to dust? What? I never heard the results. Buzz, buzz...
2006-11-20 12:07:18 · 4 answers · asked by Koozie 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Columbia carried carpenter bees. Those died when the shuttle blew up. Amazingly, some Japanese killifish survived the destruction.
There is also evidence of other changes of insects in space. Honey bees
(Apis mellifica) were unable to fly normally and tumbled in weightlessness.
House flies (Muscus domestica ) mostly limited themselves to walking on the
walls. When they did fly, they apparently could control motion in all three
axes, although flight only lasted for a few seconds. Moths (Anticarsis
gammatalis) that developed in space, learned not to fly and preferred to float
without wing beat. Whereas adults that were developed on Earth, then sent
into space, had problems controlling pitch. A spider (Araneous diadematus)
spun finer web thread in microgravity.
http://www.bio.net/hypermail/bionews/1995-July/002285.html
2006-11-20 13:02:03 · answer #1 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I remember something about getting disoriented because of the lack of gravity. I can't recall what else happened.
2006-11-20 20:14:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they exploded as the pressure defference from 1 atm changed to 0 atm, its like an over inflated ballon, quick painful death
2006-11-20 20:10:46 · answer #3 · answered by Flaming Pope 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The honeybees did well, made a home, but had a problem flying.
2006-11-21 00:22:14 · answer #4 · answered by Eric X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋