It says.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 September 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"We first tried a fully conscious mouse, and he didn't like it very much. He started to spin and got disoriented," Liu said.
i feel bad for the mouse, but i would really like to see this video.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 13 September 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't someone already do this years ago? I seem to remember video & pictures of levitating mice in similar magnetic contraptions?
― StanM, Sunday, 13 September 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, right. It was frogs.
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~gph/teaching/eng1/Images/frog-klein.jpg
There's going to be a headline for every species they levitate? :-)
― StanM, Sunday, 13 September 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vyB-O5i6E
But that was by a non-US lab, so that doesn't count, I guess. Well done JPL!
― StanM, Sunday, 13 September 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry about that.
― StanM, Sunday, 13 September 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Anti-grav technolgy! What a time to be alive.
http://www.awesome80s.com/Awesome80s/TV/images/SimpsonJasper(100).gif
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Sunday, 13 September 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
love this
― both HOOSlarious and truthful (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 14 September 2009 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"The reason we want to levitate mice is we are aware of the situation that astronauts who stay in microgravity environments long enough might lose some bone mass BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME"
― Britain's Favourite Carp (I DIED), Monday, 14 September 2009 07:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Mice in zero G:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7lgj3aZ8dU
― we honor David Buckel (Sanpaku), Thursday, 18 April 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link