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Could Squirrels Be the Key to Long Distance Spaceflight?

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This episode is sponsored by Wren, a website where you calculate your carbon footprint. Sign up to make a monthly contribution to offset your carbon footprint or support rainforest protection projects: https://www.wren.co/start/scishowspace Space is hard on the human body, but a certain ground squirrel might have the guts to show us how to last longer in space. Hosted By: Reid Reimers ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: Jason A Saslow and David Brooks! Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishowspace   Or by checking out our awesome space pins and other products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow on TikTok:   / scishow   SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ----- …...more
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Could Squirrels Be the Key to Long Distance Spaceflight?
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2022Mar 15
This episode is sponsored by Wren, a website where you calculate your carbon footprint. Sign up to make a monthly contribution to offset your carbon footprint or support rainforest protection projects: https://www.wren.co/start/scishowspace Space is hard on the human body, but a certain ground squirrel might have the guts to show us how to last longer in space. Hosted By: Reid Reimers ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: Jason A Saslow and David Brooks! Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishowspace   Or by checking out our awesome space pins and other products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow on TikTok:   / scishow   SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/64249main_ff... https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... https://portlandpress.com/clinsci/art... https://phys.org/news/2022-01-hiberna... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... https://www.pnas.org/content/117/38/2... https://cmsw.mit.edu/angles/2019/head... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/... https://www.cambridge.org/core/servic... IMAGES https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pla... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/are... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sen... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...    • Studying Behavior in Space Shows Mice Adap...   https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/bro... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/thi... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cut... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/gri...    • Studying Behavior in Space Shows Mice Adap...   https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dna... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

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