Insects In Stasis
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 18:42
in Mathematics & Economics
At Nature's Innocentive site, (a directory for X-prizes), there is an entry looking for someone who can develop a standard method of placing insects into a latent state and then reanimating them. If you figure it out, you can win 20,000 bucks. What's interesting about the offer isn't that someone is willing to pay big money in order to Han Solo a housefly. (And by the way, you can put a house fly in a freezer for a minute, take it out, tie a string around it and watch it zoom around when it wakes up, but you can't get 20,000 bucks for suggesting that.) Anaesthesia doesn't count, either. read more