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Antigravity,huh? Would be cool to use it myself... Hey,i have an idea! Let's pilfer superconductive magnets from the Large Hadron Collider! | |
Interesting. This "science" you speak of intrigues me, this calls for other experiments! That is pretty impressive either way though, brings me one step closer my live action Matrix re-enactment...
I like this guy's ideas, someone promote him! | |
Science! Twisting the laws of nature to our own perverted whims! | |
And killing things in the process! | |
Homo Sapiens: Finding new ways to screw around with other animals for 10,000 years. you show those mice who's boss, NASA | |
Why waste precious NASA dollars that could be used to shoot monkeys into space on anti-gravity research when the average person has all they need for anti-gravity in their own household? | |
Oh yea, i remember seeing them do this with a frog a few years back. Looks interesting, though too costly at the moment to be put to anything useful. I go hiking right behind JPL, sadly thats all in ashes now. | |
God I love science.
Thats on your profile page! Thats right, I've been there. | |
This is why science is awesome, and why my degree can't come quick enough | |
awesome! i bet they show the cats around NASA who's boss | |
...I feel invaded... | |
Once the price goes down a bit...a LOT...this could be very interesting...couple this with VR and amazing things can be done. | |
*meow* i'm hungry now... this looks like a brilliant way to mess around with science though. someday, this will be how they move food around through people's houses... | |
If our scientists and tech specialists invent any more cool inventions like this, maybe they'll end up inheriting the Earth, soaring over the land thanks to their steam-powered levitation devices, clad in Big Daddy armor and scorching the earth with their arm-mounted flamethrowers. And it will be glorious! GLORIOUS, I SAY! | |
I envy those mice. I love science so much. But what I'm interested in: can they turn this effect around to create artificial gravity? No need to worry about the prolonged effects of microgravity if you can make your gravity. And no centrifugal effects don't count, those are too simple, not Star Trek enough. | |
I also know what you did last summer... | |
Sure you do. SURE you do. | |
SCIENCE, WHAT NEW SPORE OF MADNESS HAVE YOU SPAWNED?! Seriously, levitating baby mice. That's pretty cool. | |
Well at least their not stuffed into bottles of rice wine like this. | |
Ok, maybe I don't... Anyway, how is plotting the death of Richard Rashleigh of South Australia going? | |
Wow. Levitating mice. I bet they were off their tits when they came up with that one. | |
I knew it would be a bad idea to put that up... | |
I wonder if you could tear apart a human by using two magnets to exert force in opposite directions. Just wondering, of course. Not like I'm working on a similar project in my basement or anything. | |
In 50 years, I can forsee great parties. | |
Took it down I see... Too bad I already know! HAHAHA! hmmm... nice webpage on the fallout wiki, very interesting... | |
I have far, far too much spare time. | |
Why don't they try that levitation on their own babies? | |
this is kinda neat, tho hopefully it will lead to creating gravity in space | |
Sadly, further tests have disproven the antigravity cat theory. | |
b-b-b-but this wan't even on mythbusters. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!!! TO THE MYTHMOBILE!!! but seriously thats kinda nifty. | |
I see... Well, until next time Lord Spoonfield III | |
PETA rage in 3...2...1... | |
EDIT: wrong thread | |
Yay for Dead Baby Mice Wine | |
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Scientists Levitate Baby Mice For Science
NASA scientists have been conducting experiments using magnetic fields to levitate baby mice, partly to study the effects of microgravity on mammalian organisms and partly because they can.
Spending time weightless in space might seem totally awesome (and let's face it, it probably is totally awesome) but it comes at a price: Too much time in microgravity tends to degenerate unused bones and muscles that astronauts tend to need once they return to Earth. So, how do you run tests on ways to prevent this critical atrophying barring expensive spaceflight or that really cool weightlessness simulator (that only gives you a few minutes of microgravity at a time anyway)?
The answer? You levitate animals - with science. Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, working on behalf of NASA, used a superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals to levitate a three-week old mouse and observe what happened.
"It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented," said researcher Yuanming Liu. Further tests involved minor sedation to keep the animals calm, though the researchers discovered that the mice were able to acclimatize to the lack of gravity quickly, even without being sedated.
Though research on levitation has been already done with grasshoppers and frogs, mice (as mammals) are much closer biologically to humans (and one must imagine that they look much cuter when spinning around in mid-air, too). This, of course, brings us one step closer to personal antigravity devices.
(MSNBC)
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