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Butterflies Fly In Space For The First Time To Creep The Beheyzeus Out Of Me

4:20PM December 2, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

By the Holy circumcised foreskin of baby Jesus! What in the name of all that is creepy and filmed by Roger Corman is this? Larvae hatching and butterflies flying in space? If I were an astronaut, I’d be freaking out.

For the first time in history, butterfly larvae—who were only six days old at launch time—have hatched in space. It happened on November 10, 2009, as part of the STS-129 “Butterflies in Space” experiment, on board the International Space Station. I can only imagine their confusion as they discovered there was no gravity. I don’t have to imagine how itchy I feel by just looking at these images. [Flickr via Popular Science]

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  • Khuntza

    December 2, 2009 at 8:17 PM

    Do you me ‘Bejesus’.. becasue if you google “Beheyzeus” then this is the only thing that comes up.. its a made up word..

  • Samuel L Jackson

    December 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM

    I’ve had it with these motherf’n butterflies on this motherf’n International Space Station!

  • steve

    December 3, 2009 at 1:09 PM

    HA! gold.

  • Tom

    December 4, 2009 at 4:25 PM

    I wonder if the butterflys will learn to fly with 0 gravity lol

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