If humanity collectively wants to live among the stars someday, we’ll have to figure out what we can take with us and whether it can survive the trip. That’s why researchers run weird experiments on living things, from plants to animals. According to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology , scientists at UC Riverside decided to stress-test one of Earth’s most obnoxious creatures, the fruit fly. They exposed them to hypergravity, which is a cool term for forces several times stronger than what we experience on Earth, just to see what would happen. Scientists expected the tiny annoying creatures to collapse under the immense pressure. They didn’t. They were just fine. Videos by VICE The flies survived, adapted, and had babies as if they didn’t have an unbelievable amount of gravity crushing down on them. The bugs were subjected to forces ranging from 4G to an absurd 13G. For reference, here on Earth we experience a baseline level of 1G.…