Float by levitating all the water in your body

Yes, the headline does sound provocative, if somewhat icky, but it is something that can happen.  If you are a mouse. 

Using strong (and I am going to assume VERY strong) magnetic fields from a superconducting magnet, NASA scientists have levitated the water inside a living animal — a mouse, as alluded to a sentence ago.  Previously done with grasshoppers and frogs, the water in a young mouse was levitated, luckily taking the entire body with it.

“It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented,” said researcher Yuanming Liu, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They decided to mildly sedate the next mouse they levitated, which seemed content with floating.

Thought number one:  if I had no idea it was about to happen and I suddenly found myself floating in space, I’d likely flail about, too.  So don’t be embarassed little mouse.

Thought number two:  I have a mental image of a completely baked mouse finding that it is levitating.  “Whoa.  This stuff is AWESOME.”

Although I’m sure practical application of this development may be somewhat limited, being able to control the amount of gravity being experienced is a pretty cool bit of technology.  That said, I’m not sure I would subject myself to an experiement where I would be told that the machine I was entering would levitate the water inside my body.  I’m probably wrong, but it seems to me that all my blood would rush to my head…