Here's how rodent research on the International Space Station is going

[boingboing]

Originally published at: Here's how rodent research on the International Space Station is going | Boing Boing

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[euansmith]

I misread the headline as “Rodent Search”; and imagined a mouse loose among the station’s wiring.

[anon33932455]

Lol same!

[knoxblox]

@euansmith

I misread the headline as “Rodent Search”; and imagined a mouse loose among the station’s wiring.

[ashe]

That is the wrong image in the article. That is the image of the “mouse-powered PC”.

[fuzzyfungus]

I suspect that there’s a reason why the “Animal Access Unit” is a fairly sturdy looking glovebox.

[MsScience]

It’s actually kinda neat! Because the International Space Station houses many different experiments over its lifetime, they have a standardized modular system for exchanging shorter experiments in and out.

An example of sub-rack experiments in the Destiny module:

Example images lifted from this NASA PDF:

167120main_Elements.pdf

[euansmith]

Nothing says “sci-fi” quite like “modules”.

[euansmith]

Little shithead.

[ashe]

Yet none of those experiments are for a mouse-powered PC…

[hecep]

Thank goodness the experiment doesn’t look anything like this: