Emu Gravity Forum: Spacesettlers
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# 4693 byepibeemie@... on Dec. 11, 2003, 2:53 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
Wasn't there somebody in the last couple of years who did a demonstration
experiment with rats, keeping them in a cage mounted on a record player
turntable, which rotated at approximately the speed an orbital colony would?
I can remember the photos of the rats on the internet as the weeks went
on, living entirely normally. The project lasted through one entire
reproductive cycle, as I recall, demonstrating using a small video camera
inside the cage that the rats could walk entirely normally, had normal
energy and food consumption, and gave birth to healthy offspring. I
remember them pointing out that the coriolis forces on the rats were
somewhat greater, because of the small diameter of the cage compared to an
orbital colony.