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'Mouse-Tronaughts' to Test Low-Gravity in Space

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the rodents-in-space dept.

RandBlade writes "The Telegraph has an article about plans to launch mice into space with simulated low-gravity for five weeks, to test the effects of low-gravity on their bodies. This "will be the first time mammals of any kind have lived in partial gravity for an extended period." Hopes are that this will provide information useful for plans to launch men to Mars, which has one-third of the gravity of Earth."

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  1. I can't support this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NASA is all about building better killing machines for the military. That has always been their primary purpose. Well, I'm sick of the war-mongering.

    If going to Mars means putting better weapons in the hands of the US military, then I don't think we should do it.

  2. Re:Well Bush is an experienced pilot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hard to be a real pilot when you are AWOL. Likewise, getting a harvard MBA is no big deal iff you can back it up with plenty of money.

    I find it funny that you are worried about attacks on us, when we lost 6 american lives here in the USA under Clinton, while we lost 3000 under W. . Likewise, the loses international keep mounting under W. But the good news is he is helping with Population control.

  3. Re:Isn't animal cruelty banned? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You want a cosmic ray mutated George W. Bush overlord...?

  4. unsubstantiated claims by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    those claims of GWB being AWOL have never been fully confirmed or coborrated. even leftist Peter Jennings dismisses the claims, so blow it up your ass

  5. Re:Well Bush is an experienced pilot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, guys with MBAs sure make excellent astronauts. They can micromanage all the others up there and disturb the experiments with questions like "when will it be done?".

  6. Re:Mouse-Tronaughts? by pseudochaotic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Y'all" ain't not no word. Of course, ain't ain't not no word neither.

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    And the l33t shall inherit the 34r7h.