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Mice Levitate; Are People Next?

By Dan Filler

Am I the only one who enjoyed this weekend story about levitating mice?

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge have succeeded in levitating mice...."We first tried a fully conscious mouse, and he didn't like it very much. He started to spin and got disoriented," Liu said. "Mice like to grab onto something, and so by just floating in the air, it's really different for [the mouse] to adjust to," he said.  A second experiment was conducted with a partly sedated mouse, which was considerably calmer as it floated in the air. According to a paper published by [Yuanming] Liu and his colleagues, under repeated levitation even mice that were not sedated began acting normally inside the cage, eating and drinking while floating.

This is precisely what the Maharishi Yogi promised his TM followers a few decades ago.  I'd give anything to see a mouse in the lotus position!

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on September 13, 2009 (boomark / email).