Mars Society Succeeds in Spinning Mice

!splut writes "Having recently finished with making humans live in the large, circular kitchen that is the Flashline Arctic Station , the forward thinking Mars Society has found a new organism to confuse. An experiment being conducted at Pioneer Astronautics for the Society is examining whether or not Coriolis effects will severely disorient mice in the Mars Society's upcoming Translife Mission , which will eventually place a colony of mice in low earth orbit in a small rotating satellite for 50 days. The current experiment involves placing a mouse habitat at the end of a turntable spinning at 25rpm, and has been going on 24-7 since August 30! Amazingly, the mice seem to be doing fine. Think they'll be able to walk straight when they stop the turntable?"

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the great escape?

[zardor]

So this is how the mice are planning to get off the planet before the Vogons get here with their yellow ships and the poetry