Experiments on mating plants indicate s
ex in space may not be good for you.
With commercial space flights in the pipeline and financiers appealing for a couple to volunteer for a manned (and womanned) mission to Mars, it's only going to be a matter of time before humans will want to do what we do best up in space.
But according to new research, getting down while we're way up
high could theoretically cause health problems for spacefaring
lovers.
James Bond may have given it a go in Moonraker, but experiments on mating plants by scientists
at Montreal University show that weightlessness affects the way
cells are transported inside living things, causing 'traffic jams'
on the vital highways that connect different processes.
Although researcher Anja Geitmann said they could not draw any
specific conclusions on the implications for animal - and human -
sex in space, she added that intercellular transport is important
in a variety of human cells.
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