Word: mice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defined direction. After 15 seconds he became lost in space and pulled out [of his flight pattern]. With his returning weight his badly needed orientation was restored too." Mouse Trap. Reviewing one of the basic pieces of no-gravity research, Major Simons analyzes the 1952 test flight of two mice in the test of an Aerobee rocket...
Before the flight, biologists removed the inner ear sensory system of one of the mice, left the other normal, and put each in a "compartment in a rotating smooth-walled drum with an irregularity that afforded a possible foothold for each." Cameras recorded the brief critical no-gravity point of the rocket flight: the desensitized mouse clung to his perch, "whereas the normal animal clawed at the air, suggesting disorientation." A subsequent experiment with monkeys "clearly established the fact that the weightless state itself produces no disturbance of circulation in terms of heart rate or arterial and venous blood pressures...
Another bit of good slapstick comes from the two hulking mice, Bill Amory and John Tehan, who are pleasantly uncoordinated and squeeky. Hal Scott, the Prince's herald, also proves himself a skilled children's performer with his relaxed, yet lively and friendly...
...instruments can report how the spaceborne animal responds to "zero gravity." The most interesting effects of weightlessness, Schaefer admits, are apt to be psychological, and so they will not be observed in full flower until a human has been exposed to zero gravity, but he hopes that even spaceborne mice will develop a few space neuroses...
...nurse to his father, Junius Brutus Booth (Raymond Massey), a magnificent ruin, mad at least north-northwest and crazy for drink at all points of the compass, as he careers across the wilderness to be Hamlet in mining camps. Richard to the river towns, and Lear to the field mice that scamper in his tousled wits...