Scientists Levitate Baby Mice For Science

[bad rider]

Antigravity,huh? Would be cool to use it myself...

Hey,i have an idea! Let's pilfer superconductive magnets from the Large Hadron Collider!

I'd love to do that, just turn up and walk in, then be all like.
"Hey you guys using these?"
"Not for a couple of months"
"You mind if we borrow'em"
"Sure, mind me asking why"
"To make video's of kittens spining around in a gravity void environment"
"All right that makes sense, have fun"
"Cheers"

T'would be awesome.

 

[General Vagueness]

To everyone going on about gravity, this is all electromagnetism, it's just being used to keep an object in the middle of a sphere without touching the edges. That's not to say electromagnetism can't be used for transportation, it can, and I've been trying to think of a better way to do it for years.

 

[5stringedbandit]

Am I the only one that lol'd so hard when imgioning disorientated spinning levitating mice?

"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.

 

[Headless Zombie]

Aperture Science

We do what we must, because we can.

 

[Last of the Chinchillas]

EDIT: Ignore this comment. Posted accidentally.

 

[theultimateend]

SCIENCE, WHAT NEW SPORE OF MADNESS HAVE YOU SPAWNED?!

Seriously, levitating baby mice. That's pretty cool.

Don't remind me .

That game caused me to lose faith in Maxis and Will Wright at the same time. I never thought that would happen.

Now I know what it feels like when people realize their gods aren't real. Talk about soul crushing.

 

[Robert632]

this seems to be the direction science is going. giving us useless info/info a child who was mentally still a fetus would know. and that's why i love it all the more.

 

[SultanP]

I really loved this part:

"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,"

I don't know why, I could almost imagine a bunch of scientists bunched around a spinning mouse saying stuff like "wicked" or bumping fists and laughing madly.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

I've read about scientists levitating frogs on a supermagnet in 1997...
So big deal with the mice.

Now if it was humansized I'd sign the heck up right now
"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!"

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Ok, we know what happens when you intro mice to antigrav, now what happens when you fire one from a rail cannon?

 

[MajoraPersona]

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.

Who is paying them to do this?

Actually, this looks like fun. How do I get into the field of small animal levitation? Is it like 2 or 4 years of collage?

I'm not artistically minded, but I don't think those have a lot to do with electromagnetism.

 

[Sneaky Paladin]

See this is how we should be spending our scientists time doing totally awesome things and hope they make a breakthrough

 

[Anarien]

I did a report on the physical effects of being in space on astronaut bodies back in school. Go science! That said, every time I see news of a study like this, I want to be a researcher.

"Honey, what did you do at work today?"
"Put geckos in the wind tunnel, levitated a few mice, the usual."

 

[iblis666]

damn if they get the tech any better im going to end up looking like Baron Vladimir Harkonnen from the dune books

 

[Aptspire]

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?

Sadly, further tests have disproven the antigravity cat theory.

actually, since the toast never hits the ground, how about a harness, containing the toast BsU, that is strapped on the cat and that is exactly the cat's legs length, so that the BsU toast hits the ground at the same time as the cat's paws?

 

[John Funk]

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?

Sadly, further tests have disproven the antigravity cat theory.

actually, since the toast never hits the ground, how about a harness, containing the toast BsU, that is strapped on the cat and that is exactly the cat's legs length, so that the BsU toast hits the ground at the same time as the cat's paws?

Still doesn't work, see the resuts of t4. The toast undergoes what is likely to be a quantum state change, either at measurement/observation, or at the moment it comes to rest. You'd end up with a cat standing on the floor, with the harness pressing toast to the floor BsD.

You could attach the cat's paws to the buttered side of toast, and when it landed on its 'toasted' feet, you'd find the toast again BsD and the paws now touching the unbuttered side.

 

[manythings]

I can honestly say if I was told that would cost one billion dollars and nothing could tangibly be produced from it I would still push the that button every chance I got. Flying baby mice? That would be the worlds best anti-depressant, it's just good stuff.

 

[Miral]

You could attach the cat's paws to the buttered side of toast, and when it landed on its 'toasted' feet, you'd find the toast again BsD and the paws now touching the unbuttered side.

That brings up an interesting question: would that leave the cat's paws buttered or unbuttered? Is it only the butter on the toast itself that is affected or does the quantum effect extend such that it was if the other side had always been the buttered one?

 

[Plurralbles]

scientists levitate small things for FUN : )