Monarch butterflies in space - Univ. of Kansas

[innocentTIVictim]

rofl. what happened to our world.

[greyshell77]

Tax Dollars in Space.

[banhotsu]

@greyshell77 Are you stupid? You really cant think of a reason to WHY tax dollars have been used to promote this?

[KUEndowment]

fyi, if you'd like to support Monarch Watch, go to the KU Endowment homepage >> Support Your Passion drop-down menu >> Special Initiatives >> Monarch Watch. Thanks!

[nolometangere]

Why monarchs? Why the specific species?

[nyteshdw1]

Btw... good work ladies and gentlemen of this program. You're the inspiration the next generation needs to better prepare themselves for the challenges of a future of off-world living. As the future of off-world habitation unfolds the research you do today will pave the path of how we will live our lives in space for many generations to come.

[nyteshdw1]

Cont; The observations would most definitely show us a lot of useful information in regards to human childbirth in micro-gravity. Seems like a pretty darned important thing to figure out before we start pushing for everyone to live off-world to me after all.

[nyteshdw1]

The next step is taking sets of small mammalian species' up there to go through birthing cycles. It should be almost as easy an experiment as this one was/is. Conception would probably have to take place on the ground but, the rest could be managed up there.

[joyariffic]

this is really gross

[2forceful]

How so?

[ejicon]

This is excellent. Can't wait to see/hear the results

[CrazyFunnyFricke]

we should put ligers in space.......Just Sayin P.S. I am a up and coming stand up comedian so go check out my routines at my youtube channel CrazyFunnyFricke.

[skant1069]

good video

[Raurex]

I don't understand the value of this.

[joyariffic]

to kill butterflies

[spipp11]

I work for Monarch Watch! Go CHIP!

[eight67five309]

oh my god its santa!

[MyCelestialDarkness]

u just made my day ROFL

[ThaDevilsChild]

seems like a pointless experiment

[allbeastveteran]

seeing how life reacts to less gravity is very important, one day that could be people living and growing in space.

[aerogelz]

them bugs

[radicaledward40]

listen to him....he has a beard and a cosby sweater

[Propolandante]

I WANT LUNAR BEARS

[Top40ModernRockPlay]

Hey, it's Santa Claus telling us a scary bedtime story about the Attack of the Butterflies?

[NzNexus]

spiders next

[lollerman12]

THE MIGHTY MONARCH

[brooketurner92]

im sorry but many of you dont know what youre talking about. CPLains and ZFrenchB are right.

it wont cost anything really it will be sent up with something thats already going into space. its not pointless at all theres plenty of logic behind this experiment and so on.. if you choose to be ignorant go ahead but dont voice it. lol.

[DoyenOfDestruction]

Next I wanna see Pygmy Horses in space!

[PhillipH903]

Hey look it's Santa!!!

[AdvancedGentleman]

He's making a list and checking it twice...lol

[finom444]

@AdvancedGentleman

LMFAO

[ZFrenchB]

This won't take billions of dollars to do. They will just send the larva up with a supply ship that will be need anyway for the ppl already in the space station. Yea it seems stupid, but if we ever want to try an live on another planet with a much lower gravity than ours this is actually an important experiment. Not saying though that we should be thinking about living on another planet right now though lol

[brooketurner92]

correct

[CPLains]

How intricate biological processes work in zero gravity is very interesting!

If you're uninvolved in a field and make constrictions on that field based on what you think in your ignorance is worthwhile to research, then that field will go nowhere.

[Polpats]

what's the point of this?

[Doomstar16]

This is pretty cool.

[hippykiller1]

This is unethical and inhumane.

[ssdd00111]

they are bugs, settle down

[chinesemusicDJ]

Welcome to reality.

[SaturnProds]

just goes to show how the government and nasa are willing to spend billions of dollars on worthless or very meaningless things when they could end world hunger and provide food and shelter for those in need with all that money.

[backoswacko10]

but... these are butterflies we're talking about here!

[Wolfgasm0414]

How true my friend....

[globalwarming4]

I saw the Monarach Butterfly on Venture Brothers. He is a saphead.

[globalwarming4]

Is that Santa?

[Marlena2006]

hehehehe

[HulkAndrei1992]

good video

[Viper2k3]

i wanna eat it

[sgtfusion]

what a waste of time and money

[TheKozlosky]

agreed

[erikhardloper]

leuk

[Donyvi]

To quote Marley:

"You see men sailing on their ego trips

Blast off on their space ship

Million miles from reality

No care for you, no care for me"

[ArchetypeX]

Tax $'s well spent...

[skintightpotato]

research is done with grant money, not tax money.

[backoswacko10]

well grant money ultimately derives from tax money

[catbox]

cool!

[wolfang111]

basicly: they will die

[rel124c1]

That's badass.

[butterfingers45]

great.....

[animehunter0808]

interesting.

[russia687]

Santa Claus?

[animehunter0808]

it means that if butterflies can live in space, chances are humans can survive too... don't you see the point? analyze the research and don't act and think like a dork.

[HaShomeret]

what next? PIGS! IN! SPACE!!!

[HalfAssHorse0]

@HaShomeret They can fly in space! Looks like a lot of people are going to have to do a lot of things that they don't want to do.

[zzz33333]

how was this comment approved?

[HaShomeret]

@weezusx

Beard!

[AHtonen23]

I have a question for anyone who sees this... Why does it matter that butterflies can survive in space?!? Its not like it helps us in any way. And they cant to do anything important in space.

[kalcaron]

Maybe we want to make a space butterfly army for defence against aliens.

[GalryZ]

Mothra?

[takuadude666]

Its actually really simple they just want to study how other organisms adapt to space like we do.

[ButteryCabinet]

They do it because they can.

[x2b0y]

We cant LIVE in space until we have the ability to look out the windows of our giant earth-like ship and see butterflies duh!

[belleromi]

I think there are better uses for money. Research grants should be made scarcer than it already is so that people can focus on things of the utmost importance.

[pogweeo]

sounds really useless in the long run

[EarthTravels]

the director is really handsome.

[itsjennak]

what made them decide on butterflies?

[daivenluo]

why is this on the most viewed?????

[whatmatt3rs]

I hope the best for those little guys!

[esze001]

My guest is the caterpillars will spawn into killer butterflies 10 times normal size, kill all the crew members and steer that international space center right into HOUSTON !

[thramblob]

The best misuse of technology I have ever seen

=-}D

[bsol07]

lol this reminds me of the space bat

[230205]

they are clearly going to die

[DontBeSuchAVagine]

rock chalk, jayhawk!

[bigred2989]

Wow, hopefully what's next is something bigger then a butterfly. Maybe a bird or even a flightless creature like a mouse or an ant colony. How would an ant colony work in microgravity?

[galantman1000]

our economy and the state of america are going down the shitter and our friends and family members are risking their lives over seas....but hold on fellas...lets fund this project on how butterflies will react to living in outerspace...why didnt I think of that? that will fix everything!

[PonsXAsinorum]

@galantman1000

People like you would have complained on what a waste sending a man to the moon would be while being a hypocrite and enjoying the composites and other advances in tech/equip resulting from such expenditures i'm sure. In other words you lack foresight which thankfully our founding fathers did not lack.

[zztwp]

Next you need to take two Black Bears up to the space station and see how they do in Space runing wild ?

Then Two Python's Let the Bears and Python's run free up there and see how they do ?

ZZTWP :

[QuietClore]

that seem like a really cool idea

[beenthere888]

I see they're working on helping human mankind

[Kamatzu]

This is the beginning of the end for us. Nostradamus predicts that "Something with the creature we will do to it make it mad".

This obviously predicts that this butterfly experiment is going to go terribly awry, causing the butterflies to KILL US ALL.

[taufan8687]

please upload the result.. :)

[JetLash494]

Really cool can't wait to see the results.

[tiger0manny0tiger]

Hopefully it works, but im pretty sure it won't because like he said they need gravity when making a crysalis(?) to know which ways up and down. Without gravity I think that the crysalis won't be able to hang.

[SuddenSparkles]

this is so cool... plus, this guy would make a perfect Santa Claus for someone's upcoming Xmas party... I wonder how much he would charge? make a donation to his caterpillar project NOW!!! We all need more Monarchs and Santas.

[vivaSuburbia]

i wonder what would happen if a baby was born in space and he lived there until he was around 20, and then you brought him down to earth?

[h1ghjum93r]

have you ever seen the movie wall-e, something like that. without gravity its bones wouldnt form properly.

[Blueisalightbulb]

Very cool :D

[neji021]

omg thats soo cool santa!

[freakingtv]

butterflies in outer space....O.O Because world hunger, poverty, blue collar corruption and war here on earth can wait. Finding find out if butterflies can hatch in outer space is much more worthy of funds. why, LIFE depends on it! In fact the whole world depends on it B\ I lie...

[h1ghjum93r]

you have to start small. the butterflies in space could be the start of a plan YOU dont know about that will one day save the human species. we are screwed as a whole as it is.

[GilbertsonDerick]

I don't understand what you're getting at.

[GetCashFree]

very interesting

[macroorchidism]

this guy must be part of monty python

[craftsforlife]

cool. video. that would be cool if it all works out! good luck!

[ozz1005]

waste of money.

[XeoMT]

I want to see two giraffes fighting in 0 gravity. Make it happen, NASA.

[mhirtes12]

Curse you, Doctor Venture! You've discovered my weakness!!!

[enjoynaturedaily]

Good video

[1stPatriotRealty]

I REALLY NEED to know how butterflies will live in space. You're kidding right?

[sharkinfested]

Not kidding. If we're ever going to colonize on another planet we will need to take plants and animals with us. It takes 2 years to reach Mars. Plants can travel as seeds but animals will have to survive in space during that trip. Butterflies pollinate plants like honey bees but they don't sting so they would be useful in a greenhouse on another planet.

[omgeveryname]

obviously inside a spaceship or spacestation

[tomanyasses]

in a space ship in space

[TheZombieJC]

You don't

[LoGjustin]

he said they will be in a space station so it isn't like they will be floating around in outer space without oxygen

[WilltheGamer]

Not really, but I wonder about a lot of the things humans do that really just don't make any sense either...

This is the least amongst them.

[Lastknownuser]

How other animals/insects adapt to space is just as important as humans, for if we are to colonize, we need to know this information because a possibility will be bringing animals with us to space, this is better then sending a cow and costs almost nothing to do, when thinking about it. so just shush.

[twoheadedturtle]

agreed

[disturbed119]

@1stPatriotRealty ooo ye of little intellectual curiosity

[sanekk]

they're doing it just to see how other organism survive is space. we might need some meat if we're living in mars or something.. guess they wanted to see how living things adapt in space too.

[ilikemike987]

I REALLY NEED to know what you think of butterflies in space.

[Neffabletranscendent]

Absolutely FASCINATING! Can't wait to see the results!