Would a cow survive the launch into space and could they then live in a space station with gravity and all the necessities of life?
NOTE: They would be slaughtered.
2007-05-31 11:19:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I see no reason why they could not stand the trip. But it is more economical at this point to send just the meat. In cases where we may be settleing other planets, it is though that the animals would be sent in embryo form.
2007-05-31 11:42:09 · answer #1 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the purpose of bringing a cow to the space station is to get milk then meat, it is not a very efficient proposal.
If the idea is to find out if cows (and other "farm animals") could be brought into space to supplement a huge space-ship full of colonists, then it might be a valid experiment.
One could hope that cows have the"stomach(s) for it".
Actually, the heart might be the problem at take off. Once on the station (or anywhere with gravity, artificial or otherwise) the cow should be OK as long as it gets all it needs.
I know that cows can travel by ship (I've been on a cargo ship transporting live cows). Accelerations -- when the ship pitches or rolls -- can reach 2 g or, the other way, go down to almost 0 g (weightlessness) but these extremes, during storms for example, are very short duration (but they return with sickening regularity).
The roll period of that ship (the one with cows) was somewhere around 20 seconds, so that in a storm, the cows near the sides would go up and down with a 20 second cycle (weight goes up during 10 seconds, then weight decreases during 10 seconds... forever...).
Cows survive that ordeal quite easily.
2007-05-31 18:30:01 · answer #2 · answered by Raymond 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why go to all the effort of launching a cow into space if you're just going to kill it afterwards?
2007-05-31 18:21:50 · answer #3 · answered by Spazzcat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They would... Provided they have an ecosystem, food, and gravity... No gravity = No life for a long period... Without gravity the development of a fetus is impossible
2007-05-31 18:48:18 · answer #4 · answered by BlackholeUSA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know a cow jumped over the moon. I read a book about it when I was young.
2007-05-31 18:27:11 · answer #5 · answered by David G 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A Holycow
2007-05-31 18:21:20 · answer #6 · answered by Mustbe 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It would make more sense to slaughter them first and take the meat into space.
2007-05-31 18:22:21 · answer #7 · answered by tricycle_pilot 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One has jumped over the moon!
2007-05-31 18:22:34 · answer #8 · answered by fletchfredarnie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't see why not, but it hasn't been done yet so we can't know for sure until someone tries it.
2007-05-31 18:22:56 · answer #9 · answered by Mira 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep, as soon as they strap on their "MOOSTER" rockets.
2007-05-31 18:21:58 · answer #10 · answered by ld48fan 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋