[sci.space.shuttle] REM := Rat Enclosure Module

jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Jonathan Deitch) (06/05/91)

I don't remember offhand who is responsible for the NASA Acronym List, but
I heard one on CNN today that certainly needs adding :

REM := Rat Enclosure Module   (No, really ... No Joke !)

Apparently that is the name of some kind of little glass cage with built-in
   water and food plus waste disposal mechanisms.  CNN mentioned it in passing
   as they reported that one of the thirty rats was 'bumped' from Columbia's
   flight due to malfunctions in the aformentioned REM !

'til later ...

- Jonathan

Food for thought : What is the jellyfish (or whatever they are) module called? 
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p515dfi@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Daniel Fischer) (06/10/91)

In article <1991Jun4.175522.10395@umiami.ir.miami.edu> jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Jonathan Deitch) writes:
>I don't remember offhand who is responsible for the NASA Acronym List, but
>I heard one on CNN today that certainly needs adding :
>
>REM := Rat Enclosure Module   (No, really ... No Joke !)

Not to mention the RCI, the Rodent Cage Interface (that's the slot where
the Rat Modules (I thought they were called Animal Enclosure Modules) fits
into the Rack)...

GIPP@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com (06/12/91)

In article <1991Jun4.175522.10395@umiami.ir.miami.edu>,
jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Jonathan Deitch) says:
>
>
>Food for thought : What is the jellyfish (or whatever they are) module called?
how about: JAM, for jellyfish aquatic module?  I assume that when they
come back, some will be saved for experiments (maybe in formaldehyde?).
then they become PRESERVES :-).


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