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  2. From: fcrary@ocf.berkeley.edu (Frank Crary)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.space
  4. Subject: Re: With telepresence, who needs people in Earth orbit?
  5. Message-ID: <1731hgINNisj@agate.berkeley.edu>
  6. Date: 21 Aug 92 15:19:12 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug21.001004.3768@samba.oit.unc.edu> <171u2uINNfsq@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Aug21.123736.1575@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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  12. In article <1992Aug21.123736.1575@samba.oit.unc.edu> cecil@physics.unc.edu (Gerald Cecil) writes:
  13. >OK, fine.  But the only current `job' for SSF is apparently biological
  14. >research on the long-term effects on microgravity, which means loading
  15. >rats into a centrifuge.  I submit that that can be done with a conveyor
  16. >belt. 
  17.  
  18. You might want to bounce this idea off a lab biologist: Experimental 
  19. animals require _alot_ more than picking them up, putting them in
  20. the experiment and then putting them back in a cage. For example, they
  21. will sometimes actively resist being taken out of their cage (or put
  22. back in it), get away from who (or what)ever is carrying them back and forth,
  23. escape from their cages (requiring a very different sort of work to 
  24. find again, etc...
  25.  
  26.                              Frank Crary
  27.                              CU Boulder
  28.                              (even though
  29.                              I'm currently
  30.                              using a Berkeley
  31.                              account...)
  32.