George Zachary, a venture capitalist and a friend of Musk's, remembers, "Elon called me up and said, 'Do you think people would think I'm crazy if I sent mice to Mars?' I said, 'Do they come back?,' and he said, 'I don't know.' I said, 'Well, if they don't come back, yes.' " Musk founded SpaceX in 2002.
But the strongest evidence for PK2's role as a time messenger comes from an injection of PK2 into the mice's brain--a single shot sent mice on a 3-day journey to the land of Nod.
So the program has to receive 10 consecutive blink packets from the transmitter to actually send a mouse click signal to the computer.
Sometimes the rodents were so eager to run that they couldn't wait to take turns, she says: At one point, a large mouse sent a smaller mouse flying when it climbed on to the wheel and started running in the opposite direction.
Nothing can so much incite a colleague's displeasure as sending a mouse with some pox that decimates the guest mouse colony.
For VPB data in pen-based presentation mode, the more annotation is done, the larger the data sent every mouse release.
As the stakes get higher, Rawlins sends for Mouse, a childhood pal from Houston with a gold tooth and an itchy trigger finger.
To detect the GC secretion in mice after restraint stress, we sent the mice with or without CCl4 injection for 3 weeks to stress.
At the flip of a switch, UC Berkeley neuroscientists can send a sleeping mouse into dreamland.
Later, a few clicks of the mouse send ads scrolling across the screen from a half-dozen bookmarked Web sites.
