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Long rest
Stargate project
How do you test what happens to the body during
Could clairvoyants spy on foreign a long space journey without actually going into space?
governments over long distances? That’s In 1986, researchers in Moscow, Russia, simulated
what the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) the weightless conditions of space by keeping 11 male
in the U.S. wanted to find out. With volunteers lying on their backs for 370 days. Despite
no useful information after 25 years, exercising on their backs, the results showed shrunken
the $20-million Stargate project was muscles, lighter bones, and terrible boredom
terminated in 1995. and stress.
Real or robotic?
Black vomit
In 2003, researchers decided to find out if real dogs
In 1804, American doctor would accept a robotic dog as if it were a living puppy.
Stubbins Ffirth performed some Although the dogs sniffed and growled at the dogbot,
revolting experiments to test his idea
their reaction was much weaker than with a real dog.
that deadly yellow fever was not
infectious. He drank bloody black
vomit from a fever patient and
rubbed it into his eyes. He didn’t
get infected, so he considered his
case proven. We now know that
the disease is spread by mosquitoes.
Obedience to authority
In 1963, American psychologist Stanley Milgram
tested the idea that people would carry out atrocities
if ordered to by an authority figure. An astonishing
65 percent of participants gave what they thought
were lethal electric shocks to an unseen victim in
another room.
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