10 Passengers Not Human

Space shuttle Atlantis was launched on Friday (06/07/2011) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The launch conducted at 22:26 pm, while the mission would last for 12 days. At least four astronauts involved in the mission as well as a shuttle mission last of NASA.

In the 30 years and 134 missions, many roles that run the shuttle, of whom helped launch three major covers the Hubble spacecraft, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the mission of studying Venus and Jupiter, as well as sending a total of 350 astronauts.

Behind the popular thing to do space shuttles, including the delivery of the iPhone 4 into space by Atlantis this time, there are many roles that have not been so well known, of whom there were passengers in addition to the human passengers who also got to fly.

As published in the online version of Wired is that passengers following:

1. Frog
Female frogs were taken in the Endeavour mission in September 1992. The goal is to see the effect on the development of tadpoles mikrogravitasi condition. Half of the eggs produced by female frogs were placed in a centrifuge to simulate a normal environment, while half are left. The result, they grow normally but the tadpoles are left in a condition mikrogravitasi trouble finding the water surface while returning to Earth.

2. Squirrel
Two squirrels were taken in the Challenger mission in May, 1985. Each squirrel named No 3165 and No. 384-80 and were taken to determine the effect on feeding behavior mikrogravitasi conditions. The result, in conditions mikrogravitasi, squirrels becomes frequent sleepiness and loss of appetite.

3. Sea urchin sperm
Sperm were moving faster in conditions mikrogravitasi. It was known at NASA brought urchin sperm into space. Animal sperm were taken through the Atlantis mission in 1997.

4. Transparent fish
Transparent type Medaka fish taken by the space shuttle Columbia in 1984. The fish was named Genki, Cosmo, Miki, and Yume. Unexpectedly, it turns out the fish can reproduce and produce many tillers. Researchers hope, based on these results later on humans could breed the fish in space.

5. Moth eggs
Moth eggs carried in Endeavour's mission in 1994. The results with the moth show that life is shorter and sterile moths.

6. Worms
Experimenting with worms carried in the 2003 Columbia mission, astronauts successfully breed worms. This proves that the successful use of synthetic nutrients.

7. Honeybees
a total of 3000 honey bee was brought to the space shuttle Challenger in 1984. The result, in the honey bee space was also successfully build a nest of thick and not less interesting than on Earth.

8. Jellyfish
A total of 2478 jellyfish carried by space shuttle mission Columbia in 1991. During the nine-day mission, from jellyfish polyp managed to grow into the next life stage called ephyrae.

9. Rat
Based on the results obtained from experiments with mice that carried the space shuttle Columbia in 1998, the mice that developed in conditions of mikrogravitasi have less developed brains, muscles shrink, and the difficulty of repairing the damaged bone.

10. Squid
The squid was taken in the last Endeavour mission this year to study the bacteria that live on its surface. Salmonella, a type of bacteria that changed three times more deadly after returning from space.

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10 species of frogs are unique and attractive in the world

The frog is not one of the rare animal species, nor as a pet. The presence of frogs is felt very disturbing fact that even human life. But make no mistake argues first, that there is a real frog has its own charm values. Once we know that the actual unique frogs and toads weird, like the frog article ML-like humans, our eyes are now wide-eyed frog again saw the figure of a diverse range of forms of weirdness that we rarely see in real life hatri. How do frogs strangest phenomena in the world, consider the following discourse.

Here are 10 frog are unique and interesting world

1. Rainbow frog

Malagasy rainbow frog is a frog that lives in dry forests of Madagascar's rocky Isalo Massif, where it breeds in shallow temporary ponds found in the valley. This species is well adapted to climbing in rocky environments, and even on vertical surfaces! When threatened, this frog will develop itself as a defense mechanism against predators.

2. Transparent Frogs

Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum, also called glass or crystal frog because my friend could see through the transparent flesh. This species is not new, but they certainly are threatened with extinction, so the findings are encouraging for the environment.

3. Atelopus Frog

Atelopus frog is known by many names such as frogs clown or Variable Harlequin Toad of Costa Rica. Frogs, these are the kind of neo-tropical frogs that used to live quite widely spread throughout Costa Rica and Panama. The species is critically endangered and is now only a few mainly left only in Panama.

4. World's Smallest Frog

This frog found in southern Peru Andes Mountains, with altitudes between 9925 and 10,466 feet above sea level.

5. World's Biggest Frog

Goliath frog or Conraua goliath frog is the largest remaining species on Earth. This frog can grow to 13 inches (33 centimeters) long from snout to tail, and weighs up to 8 lb (3 kg). This frog has a relatively small habitat range, mainly in West Africa (near Gabon). Goliath frog can live to 15 years. Goliath frog eat scorpions, insects and small frogs. These frogs have sharp hearing but had no vocal sac.

6. Red Frog Mantel

This frog has a red coat is orange / red on the dorsal surface / body. This small frog, reaching a size of 2.5 cm (1 in.) in length. This size is small, this frog is a terrestrial frog native to Madagascar.

7. Toxic Frog

Poisonous toadstools with colors like sapphire blue, is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae, which is native frogs of Central and South America. Unlike most frogs, the species active in the daytime, and often shows bright-colored body. Although all dendrobatids at least somewhat toxic in the wild, the level of toxicity varies from one species to the next, and from one population to another. Many species are critically endangered. Amphibians are often called "dart frogs" by a native indian by the use of their toxic secretions to poison the tip of his arrow.

8. Frog Pillow

Frog pillow can grow to six inches long and inhabit Uruguay, Brazil and northern Argentina. While it may look like bearing silent, but the frog was quick in attacking lizards, small rodents, birds, other frogs.

9. Darwin's frog

Chile Darwin's frog is regularly seen until around 1978, but did not appear again and it seems to have disappeared, and now possibly extinct species. This species, which live in leaf litter on the forest floor, has an unusual method in terms of parenting her children, male taking eggs from the nest into his vocal sac where they hatch into tadpoles after about eight days. When he began to feel the newly hatched tadpoles wriggling, male frogs bring them into the river where he took off a young frog and here they completed metamorphosis.

10. Vietnam Frog

Theloderma corticale, or Vietnamese mossy frog, the frog species in the family Rhacophoridae. This frog is found in Vietnam and possibly China. Its natural habitat subtropical or tropical lowland forest humid, live in fresh water, and rocky areas. Common name of mossy frogs arise from the fact that the skin is mottled green and black that resembles moss grows on rocks, and an effective form of camouflage or disguise.

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