#Turmoil2020's

On the topic of "boy scout science", but not related to nuclear energy I was listening to an audio book about the early stages of the Space Race in 1950's America and "Space Fever" in general society. In it, the narrator read that public school physics/science classes everywhere were getting swept up in space science everywhere, and in one high-school class I think they decided to establish a set of experiments to study the effect of high G-forces on a living thing, they picked mice and determined a centrifuge would be their best bet (other options included a rocket powered skate-shoe).Their first centrifuge was attached to a washing-machine motor and the base was a slab of pine or some other soft craft wood. It malfunctioned and promptly shattered into many pieces and exploded about the classroom on initial tests and they went back to the drawing board.In any case, by the end of it all they failed to record much or it was all lost save for in the end the grand total of lab-rats they had did not diminish; but multiply. Appearently they had held on for so long the captive rats for study had bred before being tested prompting as the writer put: "An impromptu and unexepected lesson in reproduction/reproductive biology".I don't know why it comes to mind, just that it did when I read your post. If you're interested in seeking it out it's called "A Ball, A Dog, And A Monkey". It was very fun to listen to as I stacked and stocked boxes overnight at work.