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Research is obviously warranted on the possibility of shrew blankets that can automatically detach when they touch down.
by sidewndr46 3y ago
Research is obviously warranted on the possibility of shrew blankets that can automatically detach when they touch down.
- tialaramex 3y agoI think if we're going to give shrews blankets, we should just give the shrews blankets, not conditioned on volunteering for this potentially fatal research project.
- LorenPechtel 3y agoNah, do the same thing they did for one of the Venus landers--fasten them with something that melts. Once they have reached an altitude where the temperature won't kill them the tether melts and the blanket falls away. (On Venus they did it to cut a chute because it would have made the lander fall so slowly it would have died before landing.) However, shrew blankets change the whole scenario to irrelevance--a shrew in a blanket sufficient to keep it safe has very different aerodynamic behavior than a naked shrew.