Microgravity researchers at NASA have used a superconducting magnet that generated a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside a mouse, effectively simulating weightlessness for the rodent, right here on earth! The first floating mouse didn’t seem very happy about the ordeal, so subsequent tests involved sedating the test mice. As should be expected, the doped up mice had a much better time floating around.
The research is intended to study the effects of weightlessness on bone density, and to find ways to counter the negative effects of prolonged low-gravity on the human body. No word yet on when human beings will be floated around as part of this research.
Via TG Daily.
That’s so cool… now we just need an array of these in our home so our food can levitate on the plate and we don’t actually need tables! Can you imagine how cool that would be?
It would depend on how much water is in the food, I guess.
I wonder if we could make “placeholders” that are lined with water inside to attach to other objects… I think a world where we can put things anywhere we want, even without a table, shelf, etc. would be really cool
wheres the video?? Seeing is believing.
Well, what I want to see is when they create this the opposite way in real weightless environment, to simulate gravity on a spacecraft.
And also a research on what circular currents may wake in the body, specially the brain of those creatures :)
A high, floating mouse.
Sounds like fun, where do I apply!
Hopefully the gave the mouse an extra block of cheese for his pain and suffering.
How is the mouse doing now?