Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Shrimptastic!

I read an article on msnbc.com today about how this video of a science experiment was posted on a website (I assume a science website) and someone got a hold of it and now it's become an Internet phenomenon. Apparently, the experiment was to take healthy shrimp and shrimp with bacterial infections, and to have them run on an underwater treadmill to see how long they could last. The scientists didn't even know if the shrimp WOULD run on a treadmill, thinking that they might do it for a few seconds, and then swim off. But as it turns out, apparently shrimp dig treadmills. Some of them were still running up to four hours later! Eventually they had to physically remove them from the treadmill. So here is the video, with music added to it, for your viewing pleasure.

1 comment:

Rachel said...

this is totally weird!