studying the photo a bit more (the creepy forced expression on the mother's face, the manic one on the father's, and the baby's cold, dead eyes), i have to ask, is this glass "house" for the baby's protection, or ours?

yes, he probably did escape the usual ills, and got much worse ones instead due to having no immune system. getting the sniffles once in a while is good for a child, as is going outside and playing in the dirt, builds up the immune system for later life

i think i broke it, i uploaded "Don't Fear The Reaper" and it's been stuck on the "Uh-Oh" page ever since

@#11 I may have emboldened the wrong word, my point was NASA aren't the people doing this experiment, it's the Japanese, so people bitching about NASA wasting money on this are flat wrong.

The ISS has elements from many nations, I couldn't tell you who provided what, but I do know the whole point of it is to provide a platform for anyone who wants to experiment with a place to do so. So this particular experiment has nothing to do with NASA, not the space station itself

it say a Japanese crew aboard the International space station, this has absolutely nothing to do with NASA