Fruit Flies to ISS No, not fruit flies to ISS, fruit flies to ISS -- the insect! (Sorry about that, couldn't resist a pun.) NASA is planning to send some fruit flies to the International Space Station to study the effects of space travel and space on genes. Fruit flies share quite a bit of genetic material with humans and they go through generations like there is no tomorrow. NASA is doing this research cause they're a little worried that astronauts on a long voyage to Mars, would return to Earth to spawn monstrous offsprings that would kill us all as a lesson to the human race to not mess with science. I think they should be more worried about the monstrous offspring of fruit flies that were in space. After a few generations, you never know what they might spawn -- didn't anyone at NASA see the Fly?

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