Shrimp exercise!

[washefuzzy]

http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=shrimpActivity

Sigh!

[KLKelly]

   Researchers annoy me.

[Iceman]

More well spent taxpayer money.

[plecoL83]

wow.... that's a first!

[jodes22]

WTF??? Weird...

[Jeff1192]

One....if that was done in Canada, I don't even want to know how much of my tax money that used.
Two....who has that much time on their hands that they having nothing better to do than put shrimp on treadmills.   

[babblefish1960]

Imagine the thought and engineering that must have gone into figuring out how to make a treadmill that would work for a shrimp, some research grants and the bureaucrats that fund them are clearly retarded.

[beowulf]

From the looks of the site it seems to be a private company and American.

[washefuzzy]

the bureaucrats that fund them are clearly retarded.

No truer words were spoken!

[BigMomma]

Actually I find this quite fascinating and the fellow who is credited for this video is David Scholnick and no its not Canadian.  It was made a laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina.
Interesting read http://www.pacificu.edu/as/biology/faculty/DavidScholnick.cfm

[RoxyDog]

obviously they have nothing better to do...?   
let's see, should we cure a disease today?  nah.  let's make a treadmill for a shrimp!   

[Aquaviewer]

I'm surprised by the generalizations that are being made about the research documented here with few people looking into the rational for science behind the video.  In this case systems such as the treadmill, as ridiculous as they may look at first glance, are used to monitor oxygen consumption, metabolism and energetics in various aquatic species in the lab. 

Basic science is the foundation for much of our current understanding of both animal and human physiology and health.  Take the guy who was crazy enough to spend his days searching for giant squid so he could study their axons and just happened to lay the ground work for mapping the human nervous system.  Or more recently, crazy experiments which put water wings on rats are part of research into depression and have lead to discoveries of neuronal regeneration in the brain...... providing hope for people with degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's.

To relate it to our hobby, the results of experiments such as the treadmill have contributed to such ridiculous things as gaining a better understanding of aquatic organism physiology and health, and resulted in improvements to the quality of fish food and the effectiveness of fish medications to name but a few. 

Gee I sure hope no one is spending tax dollars on that.......

[babblefish1960]

Very good point aquaviewer, it sort of takes the wind out of my sails regarding bureaucrats, no fun, but a valid point nonetheless.  It is, after all, the experiments from all sorts of imaginings that gives us the interesting lives we have.

[BigMomma]

Excellent points Aquaviewer and its right in line with this Club's mandate; to further the study of all forms of aquatic life.

[OrchidNow]

Do people really believe that if the Govt have extra money, that they will spend it on medical things only? They won't be allowed to!!!

I remembered someone wanted to changed things so that the general public have to spend a minimal fee for asking for something from the Govt. That got shot down by a group of lobbyist.

And today one can go into any Govt department and asked for information (based on the Access of information act) for free. And this cost individual departments money and time to do this. Which basically translates to you and I. OK...enough ranting.

As for the shrimp on the tradmill, I don't get it....but my son thought it was cool!

[jodes22]

Actually I find this quite fascinating and the fellow who is credited for this video is David Scholnick and no its not Canadian.  It was made a laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina.
Interesting read http://www.pacificu.edu/as/biology/faculty/DavidScholnick.cfm

Very interesting... I take back my previous comment!