From David Gibson
So rats lose weight when exposed to high-gravity environments (This Week, 13 June). Ariadne’s mult-adjectival friend Daedalus proposed centrifuges as a method of inducing homeostatic weight loss in New Scientist as long ago as 15 February 1968.
According to David Jones’s book The Inventions of Daedalus, only a month after the New Scientist article the American magazine Time (8 March 1968) carried an account of some NASA experiments showing weight loss in centrifuged rats.
