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Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim by JonnieCache on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:12AM (#3252176)
Sure. I wasn't posting those links to further this argument, I posted them simply because they are interesting.

Besides, they're only inbred strains, not clones.

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Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim by jonhendry on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:29AM (#3252261)
They can also be pretty damned expensive. Like $400+ for a mouse.
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Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim by JonnieCache on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:45AM (#3252327)
Looks like I'm in the wrong business.

How does that come about? Patent shenanigans?

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Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim by jonhendry on Friday November 18, 2011 @12:12PM (#3252437)
Probably. But really, if you're spending $50,000 on an experiment, you're probably more interested in getting mice that are really what it says on the label, than in saving a few bucks and possibly shooting your experiment and/or career in the nuts.

Pretty much anything 'lab grade' is going to be expensive. The lab I worked in ordered a lab grade laser for optogenetics experiments, and that cost something like $18k. Presumably that gets you a very precise, stable wavelength.

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