Squirrels may hold the key to space travel.

Lack of sleep has its benefits

Space – the final frontier… for a picnic.

What do squirrels have to do with interstellar travel? If you watch enough science fiction that involves space travel, you’ll see spacecraft designed to travel from planet to planet in a matter of decades. It’s a concept that’s come up in everything from the latest series. Ark Like movies Passengers And Prometheus. But it’s one thing to say “the ship’s crew sleeps for hundreds of years” and quite another to scientifically figure out how it works.

Is such a thing even possible? Well, that’s where the queers come in.

According to Space.com, NASA is currently funding sleep research to see if humans can be kept in the same conditions on long journeys to the stars. This includes work being done by Dr. Kelly Drew at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, which shows that hibernating animals are actually squirrels.

Dr. Drew’s research focuses on Arctic ground squirrels, which are among the sleepers – they have to sleep for nine months in a year, according to a NASA press release. And given that they can survive freezing temperatures while in that state with their bones or muscles intact, their ability to hibernate is of particular interest to NASA.

It’s a fact worth cramming into your mind. Remember, the next time you see a replay animation being activated from a disabled animation Foreign citizens – The squirrel may be responsible for all this. It can make any science fiction movie more entertaining.