Penn Research Is Outta This World, Literally

When we're busy getting pissed at SPEC and laughing at weird pledging tasks, sometimes it can be easy to forget that we go to a university renowned for its research. Sometimes Penn professors do cool shit like shoot people off into space and study their twins.

NASA (yep, apparently they’re still a thing) and Penn are studying identical twin astronauts to understand how space travel affects the body. One will remain on Earth while the other parties on the International Space Station. The space-bound twin will experience fatigue, inflammation around the eyes, and loss of bone density due to the lack of gravity. Basically he'll come back looking a lot like you post Fling.

Although scientists are unsure of how this study will affect space travel in the future, we're pretty sure that it's still the coolest thing to happen to identical twins since Tia and Tamera got their own reality show. Sadly, the closest the rest of us stuck on earth will ever come to being in outer space is fulfilling the Physical World requirement.