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Submit Your Ideas to Experiment on the Kelly Brothers

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 31, 2013
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Differential Effects on Homozygous Twin Astronauts Associated with Differences in Exposure to Spaceflight Factors
“NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) has released solicited research response area NRA NNJ13ZSA002N-TWINS “Differential Effects on Homozygous Twin Astronauts Associated with Differences in Exposure to Spaceflight Factors” that solicits applied research in support of HRP goals and objectives. This response area is Appendix D of the Human Exploration Research Opportunities (HERO) NRA (NNJ13ZSA002N).”
Funding Opportunity Description
“There is a singular opportunity to propose limited, short-term investigations examining the differences in genetic, proteomic, metabolomics, and related functions in twin male monozygous astronauts associated with differential exposure to spaceflight conditions. This opportunity has emerged from NASA’s decision to fly veteran NASA astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for a period of one year commencing in March 2015, while his identical twin brother, retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, remains on Earth. Scott Kelly, a veteran of two Space Shuttle flights as well as a six-month ISS mission, will have a cumulative duration of 540 days in low Earth orbit at the conclusion of the one-year flight, while Mark Kelly, a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights, has a cumulative duration of 54 days in low Earth orbit. This opportunity originated at the initiative of the twin astronauts themselves.”
Keith’s note: I have to say this is a cool idea. Hats off to the Kelly brothers for making this offer.

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

6 responses to “Submit Your Ideas to Experiment on the Kelly Brothers”

  1. Anonymous says:
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    OK…we send one of them on a trip at near the speed of light, and the other one stays back home…

  2. Steve Pemberton says:
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    After this they can send Scott on a stellar round trip at near-light speed as a definitive test of the twin paradox! But seriously what a unique opportunity for research, and agreed the brothers should be commended for coming up with this idea.

  3. dogstar29 says:
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    They have shown commendable personal initiative in supporting the space program. The main conclusion I can see is that the differences are minimal and despite the alarmism one still hears, the effect of spaceflight for a year or more is modest, can be tolerated with practical countermeasures, and does not require artificial gravity.

  4. sch220 says:
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    See if it is reasonable to consider a telepathic link between the two at great distances. Determine if there is any subliminal communication occurring between one in orbit and one on the ground.

  5. hikingmike says:
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    Well done! Try to detect radiation effects somehow and compare. Of course bone loss and recovery. I’m sure there are tons more.

  6. JD Drum says:
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    You do realize that NASA is the just the front man for a

    thousand corporations constantly fishing for new and

    lucrative uses for their tired old inbred technologies?

    You should know that the people at Microsoft, Kodak,

    IBM, Corning Hewlett Packard, Xerox, Merrill Lynch and

    nearly every large corporation, and NASA, will steal a

    billion dollar development idea with the same parasitic

    disdain that your punk a$$ neighbor borrows a screw

    driver, and won’t give it back. AND NASA scientists

    and engineers regularly stalk the corporate world

    on sabbatical to poison and drug civilians for their own

    profit and pleasure.

    If they offer to interview you about your ideas, you make them

    meet you on your turf, some place you Know the air, the

    food and water is safe and cannot be poisoned.. If you meet

    on their turf, they’ll have you so high so fast you’ll give up your

    grandmother. Oh, they love nothing more than to use smooth

    talkers, fancy titles and pretty, even famous faces to lure you

    into a false sense of security, then they pounce like sharks to

    strip the very cells out of your brain.

    Do you think any of the people who worked with Edward

    Snowden knew who he Really was? Do you Really think

    NASA engineers Advertise they are Doctor Cheung from

    NASA, out on sabbatical to steal any stray technology they

    can latch their suckers to? They’ll just be plain old Ed, some

    lowly anonymous test tech. Just another of a million science

    janitors you wouldn’t know from Adam, unless you saw their

    pay check. That’s why you hear them and their co-conspirators

    laughing on the phone and behind closed doors, and nobody

    will let you in on the joke.

    If seduction doesn’t work, they have no problem with resorting

    to clandestine narcotics, aerosols and magic markers to drug

    you into giving them what they want, which is a new idea to keep

    their reputations for genius fresh, and their scientific grist mill

    churning. It won’t be until years later; when your development has

    been assimilated into their moronic mass of misunderstood,

    misapplied and misappropriated oligarchical amalgamation of

    designs, that you discover who they Really were, and what they

    Really did. Then you will be marked for life and passed around

    from one low tech job to another like a contract corporate whore

    to be surreptitiously poisoned and drugged while they pick your

    brain and rob you at every corporate stop.

    That is why their Space Shuttles couldn’t fly, their Space

    Telescope couldn’t see, and their Mars Probes couldn’t

    land. Because NASA and their parasite contract corporations

    didn’t invent them, their science or their technologies. That

    nine headed hydra known as NASA only stole those

    technologies and inventions, and only had a rudimentary,

    pedestrian understanding of their functions and operation when

    they put astronauts’ lives at risk, putting them into service.

    Don’t fall for it. Save your ideas until you can afford to develop

    them yourselves.

    Isn’t it time the Uhmerican people realized that the Uhmerican

    government is just a cabal of thieves employed to steal

    everything they can get their hands on for the rich people who

    own it?