>Then why doesn't skydiving or taking rides on rollercoasters cause "fireworks" in your epigenetic triggers?
lmgtfy.com
You can see the same sort of effects in worms without needing to send them into outer space using a microgravity simulator that rotates a liquid-filled chamber to give them a free fall environment.
NASA just released a study which shows going into space causes your epigenetic triggers to go off "like fireworks...
Sebastian Allen
Asher Campbell
>free fall environment
You mean a zero G environment.
Freefall =/= zero G
Andrew Smith
Fuck off you pseud.
phys.org
>To prepare for worm experiments aboard the ISS, the researchers are using "clinorotation, " which is a ground-based microgravity simulator technique that rotates a liquid-filled chamber in such a way that the worms experience free fall.
Ryder Long
So what's the connection and mechanism? Why should microgravity start hammering on your epigenetic switches like a gorilla with a mallet? It's not like microgravity could play any role in ordinary, passive, stochastic evolution.
Jose Davis
Clearly worms were deliberately designed by aliens!
t. retard
Benjamin Martin
>So what's the connection and mechanism?
>It's not like microgravity could play any role in ordinary, passive, stochastic evolution.
The gravity as it is on Earth played a role in evolution because successful organisms of the past able to reproduce and have offspring around today necessarily had to be organisms that functioned successfully with that level of gravity. When you put organisms that adapted to Earth gravity into an environment with different amounts of gravity e.g. much less gravity like in space or in a clinorotation device, then their biological processes will get warped in different ways because they're no longer getting the same environmental feedback they were adapted to.
>Why should microgravity start hammering on your epigenetic switches like a gorilla with a mallet?
It doesn't. You have it in your head that this is some deliberate orchestrated process that starts happening, probably because of that shitty fireworks analogy you read about, but it's really more like how your shoelaces gradually get untied when you walk around a lot. Physical processes were adapted to one environment and start to warp / fall into different configurations when taken out of that one environment.
Luke Hall
>It's not like microgravity could play any role in ordinary, passive, stochastic evolution.
You fucking idiot, if all evolution of life has taken place under gravity, then we should EXPECT that taking away that constant factor has an effect.
Also, your design argument completely ignores the other known effects of microgravity, like T-cell deregulation. Why would aliens design humans to lose their immune responses and get sick in space?
Daniel Smith
What are you even trying to talk about? I linked an article that shows clinorotation is used to give worms a free fall environment because you or some other user apparently don't believe that counts as "free fall" when that's exactly what it is.
Noah Turner
Sarcasm is not your strong suit.
Christopher Miller
No, I get that you're using sarcasm, I just don't know why you're using it in response to my post.