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Query:

Subject: Is it true that astronauts cannot cry in space?

Date: Thu Mar 19 17:35:52 1998
Posted by Scott W. Langill
Grade level: other
School: House of Misrepresentatives
City: Washington State/Province: DC
Country: USA
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 890350552.Gb
Message:

I ran across the following unattributed statement in a list of "weird 
but true" facts...

     "In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no
      gravity, so the tears can't flow!"

Is this true?


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