• The Simpsons portal

• "Deep Space Homer" at The Simpsons.com

• "Deep Space Homer episode capsule". The Simpsons Archive.

• "Deep Space Homer" at the Internet Movie Database

• "Deep Space Homer" at TV.com

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a Cartoon

Masterpiece

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In 2014, 20 years after the production of this episode,

NASA did indeed send ants to the International Space Station to conduct behavioral experiments about collective search in microgravity. The results of this experiment were published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

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