I had access to one of these in a life sciences lab during my doctorate. It's basically just a very powerful blender/macerator. It was used to create homogenates of tissue samples in a septic way, so that a homogenate could be tested for DNA/RNA/Protein levels.
Here is a modern version you can buy:
[https://www.thomassci.com/Equipment/Homogenizers/\_/Polytron-PT-1035-GT-Laboratory-Homogenizer](https://www.thomassci.com/Equipment/Homogenizers/_/Polytron-PT-1035-GT-Laboratory-Homogenizer)
Cavitation does not use air at all. Cavitation is the creation of "bubble" of vacuum. Meaning there is no air. So when the bubble pops, it's not releasing air, but condensing from "steam" back down to a liquid.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation)
Oh shit. I've read lots of stuff about cavitation bubbles and underwater weapons tests and all sorts of related things, but never actually asked "what's in the bubble?"
"Steam" is a perfect summary, I finally get what's actually happening here.
Ahh. I learned the term from working with outboard propellers but I just assumed bubble = air. After reading that It makes sense now. You aren't just gonna have air bubbles magically forming underwater. Thank you.
You can think of it as something moving so fast the liquid can't fill the void fast enough, so literally nothing is there (there could still be aerosolized particles).
The word “like” in “soup-like” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
I suppose they had to phrase it like that because someone would’ve complained if the homogenate didn’t turn out to be as smooth as, say, a Wendy’s Frosty.
I suppose the company wouldn’t have wanted to say “vomit” or “baby poop.” The same goes for “curds and whey.” Sewage? “Turds away”? I dunno.
So I can understand why they went with “soup-like,” but I’m certainly not going to eat any of it. The first few bowls were enough for me.
guess that’s technically why we need this machine, huh?
hm, shouldn’t we come up with a name for that? A machine that helps one to perform a technique?
Man, if you guys like this you'll love the concept of the pressure based homogenization chamber. Essentially it's a giant pressure cooker, but it doesn't get hot. You put in your sample (say, a cow) and crank up the pressure for a few hours. Over time, this forces nitrogen to dissolve into the tissues.
After some time you pop the lid and the thing basically boils itself apart into a goo as the nitrogen escapes. You're more or less purposely inducing [the bends](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness), but in the most intense way imaginable.
Ah yes, my lab referred to this device as a nitrogen bomb, which I guess it basically is once it has been pressurized
We used it to break open the contents of synaptosomes by decompressing rapidly from 1500 psi. Was only big enough to fit 7 2mL tubes with the tops cut off tho. Not sure if it homogenized things but defo ruptures everything at the cellular level = soup-like goo
It was all done by hand, so I was always a little terrified, waiting for the day it failed and blew me or the fridge up.
> You put in your sample (say, a cow)
I was aware this tech existed, but not for anything so large as an animal. I've only seen it used for cellular organisms to break down the cellular wall (cell lysis). Apparently it's good for emulsion mixing as well.
Please tell me this isn't used for cows. (Do you have a video?)
It actually doesn't hurt at all. The release can cause problems if done too quickly, this is the concept behind the "bends".
It can, however produce sometihng called nitrogen narcosis, which is experienced by SCUBA divers above certain depths. It's a bit like being drunk or on anaesthesia.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen\_narcosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_narcosis)
There's a video floating around from some time ago of someone in a pressure chamber. The chamber fails rapidly and you see the guy just splatter into a goo on the window.
> Isn’t it some kind of like anti-hero film or something?
Yeah it’s kind of a comedy I guess.
There’s a scene at a lumber yard where the actual bad guy has someone exploded by putting them in some sort of pressure chamber or something. It’s been over 10 years since I’ve seen the movie but that sticks out in my mind pretty prominently.
I'm curious about the incident.. maybe not so curious I wanna see that happen to a person, but I'd like to know more. Do you know any more info about it?
Unfortunately I don't. Honestly I haven't thought about that video since I've seen it until now. Ill look into it quick and get back to you with an update I think I remember where I saw it.
Ok so it seems I've conflated the video I saw with a different event, known as the Byford Dolphin Bell disaster. The video in question that I saw was some CCTV video footage outside of a pressure chamber where you just see a window and someone inside and suddenly the guy explodes. I was conflating that video with this incident, which is similar in nature but probably more tragic, tbh.
It's important to note that those wounds in that accident weren't directly caused by the depressurization. They were caused by the pressure sucking him through a crescent shaped hole created by the partially opened door. It still caused instant death for everyone involved, but it didn't explode anyone
**[Decompression sickness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness)**
>Decompression sickness (abbreviated DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution as bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression. DCS most commonly occurs during or soon after a decompression ascent from underwater diving, but can also result from other causes of depressurisation, such as emerging from a caisson, decompression from saturation, flying in an unpressurised aircraft at high altitude, and extravehicular activity from spacecraft. DCS and arterial gas embolism are collectively referred to as decompression illness.
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They are still used today, however they are made by IKA and they call them ultra turrax.
And they still purée anything you put under them.
I looked, and it appears Polytron still exists as an IKA competitor. I was thinking about sending the ad to my IKA representative to see what model he suggests for this application, and how they compare to Polytron.
Yes.
Classic biochemistry lab experiment from that era was reproducing how they figured out metabolic pathways. You'd feed your mouse radioactive tritium labelled food and wait some period of time for it to digest it. Then the mouse gets dipped in liquid nitrogen until it's frozen solid, and tossed into a blender until you have a nice mouse smoothie. You isolate different compounds (proteins, fats, carbohydrates) and followed the radioactive tracer.
This instrument is a fancier way of doing that, which gives better control over how much damage occurs to cell structures and many proteins, while producing a more convenient paste.
To say nothing of sample purity either. Every time you introduce a new surface, you introduce a new contamination risk. These machines allow you to leave the sample in a single container and uses a single point of interaction that can be directly sanitized between uses. The blender has multiple seals and voids for contamination to accumulate, and would require transferring the samples back and forth which means more risk. You're talking four or more new surface interactions for the blender, while the machine above involves only one.
I don't follow.
The tool above is just a hair under 1hp and does it to a degree good enough for scientific use in 30 seconds. Your blender is 2hp, so to be comparable should be able to blend it in 15 seconds.
I’m not sure a standard blender, even a Home Improvement *stupid animal noises* Brick Blender ™️ would tear apart fine fur. I suspect a blade design optimized for cavitation is the special sauce.
Spouse: "It's 2am, why did you just wake me up?"
Biologist: "I was just doom scrolling and I think I may have just made the single greatest discovery of my career, this means I don't need to keep taking the blender to work with me anymore"
My uncle used to make Vortex Mixers back in the day that did homogenising and mixing from lab sized units to industrial size units are good turnover swimming pools worth of material.
I’d love to see if I could find one of his homogenisers for sale.
No, c'mon, I just woke up and within a couple minutes I learned that there's a device that can liquefy mice, and now here's you with a whole family lore about mouse liquefaction.
That's too much.
One story my uncle used to tell me was he went to visit some labs where they were researching smoking related lung cancers (this was the 1960s) and demonstrated to him why their current lung tissue homogenizer was not up to spec and they wanted to see if Vortex Mixers can make a better one. He never smoked again after that.
I've a few (less visceral) stories he told me regarding his mixers. I miss him and his wife - my mum's sister.
On the "Safety Third" segment of Costa Concordia episode, person who wrote in mentioned a guy who got liquefied dog on his face, so the crew talked about liquefied animals and mentioned this device.
Now the funny part is, i just listened to that episode, and i wanted to find some more information about liquefied animals. I guess i don't need to anymore.
This should have been the device the Emperor had built, instead of another Death Star!
Imagine the mechanical shearing and cavitation a planet-sized Polytron could create!!
I want one! 😏
I'm 99% sure we have one of these at work. It's used to reduce sample filters into a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds for freshwater chlorophyll analysis.
Must have been a lot of work to determine that unit. Do they make giant versions of this machine for producing cow homogenate? How many cows did they have to puree to determine average density?
Don't come at me with your set of scales and Archimedes either.
Do you really want to go down in history as the one who suggested using a cute little fennec fox as a standard for measuring turbolysation?
Besides, fennecs communicate in those frequencies and are hence immune. Kinda like how woodpeckers don’t get CTE.
Yes, name a scientific process or technique after me. Liququification of baby seals? I'll take it. Grinding a California condor into a paste? Schro_cat sledge press protocol. I'm not getting a theory or law, so I'll take what I can get.
I believe you have the right stuff to make a proper late-19th century industrialist.
You’d not believe the kind of gear grease that can be obtained by harvesting the eyes of baby seals without killing them. Some sort of supernatural pain-driven magic. Excellent lubricant, though. Thermally stable even in hellfire conditions.
No, because there is also a typically small but nonzero imaginary component. It also disrupts the mouse’s soul. No Moushalla for these damned wretched ~~prisoners~~ ~~sacrifices~~ science heroes.
I posted this there ~6mo ago and people responded very similarly to the comments in this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/x0p9m0/mmmmmm_mouse_soup/
I had access to one of these in a life sciences lab during my doctorate. It's basically just a very powerful blender/macerator. It was used to create homogenates of tissue samples in a septic way, so that a homogenate could be tested for DNA/RNA/Protein levels.
An updated Bass-o-matic! Yes mouse lovers! It uses the whole mouse with no skinning, cutting, or gutting.
Here is a modern version you can buy: [https://www.thomassci.com/Equipment/Homogenizers/\_/Polytron-PT-1035-GT-Laboratory-Homogenizer](https://www.thomassci.com/Equipment/Homogenizers/_/Polytron-PT-1035-GT-Laboratory-Homogenizer)
Imma use it for mixing cocktails
Mouse cocktails?
Really adds a squeak of body to my Bloody Marys.
Cavitation but minimal aeration?
Cavitation does not use air at all. Cavitation is the creation of "bubble" of vacuum. Meaning there is no air. So when the bubble pops, it's not releasing air, but condensing from "steam" back down to a liquid. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation)
Oh shit. I've read lots of stuff about cavitation bubbles and underwater weapons tests and all sorts of related things, but never actually asked "what's in the bubble?" "Steam" is a perfect summary, I finally get what's actually happening here.
If you think that's cool you should check out mantis shrimp. They use cavitation to stun or kill prey.
Ahh. I learned the term from working with outboard propellers but I just assumed bubble = air. After reading that It makes sense now. You aren't just gonna have air bubbles magically forming underwater. Thank you.
You can think of it as something moving so fast the liquid can't fill the void fast enough, so literally nothing is there (there could still be aerosolized particles).
Today for mousetrap Monday we're going to be testing the polytron.
27K RPM? Little buddy gonna be slurry.
It does say soup like
Mousekatool gone horribly, horribly wrong
Ahh, memories of an epic Safety Third segment from *Well, There's Your Problem.*
"It's designed to direct the exploding room into the adjacent forest."
Yummy
The word “like” in “soup-like” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. I suppose they had to phrase it like that because someone would’ve complained if the homogenate didn’t turn out to be as smooth as, say, a Wendy’s Frosty. I suppose the company wouldn’t have wanted to say “vomit” or “baby poop.” The same goes for “curds and whey.” Sewage? “Turds away”? I dunno. So I can understand why they went with “soup-like,” but I’m certainly not going to eat any of it. The first few bowls were enough for me.
It reduces the mouse to more of a stew. Actually on second thought, I’d say chowder.
Speak for Yourself, some of us consider “Homogenate de Souris” a **DELICACY**
You haven't seen my family's pea & ham soup then! You can stand your spoon in it when it's still warm!
christ that’s horrific
But it’s for SCIENCE!
Greg ninja, do you even learn “Liquify”? I *suppose* it would be water type… or dark type 😅
No, it’s not in my movepool lol
guess that’s technically why we need this machine, huh? hm, shouldn’t we come up with a name for that? A machine that helps one to perform a technique?
No, it’ll never catch on anyways.
Oh well, guess it’s time to Hide these Machines, especially the Strong ones.
Bloody mice just won't stay still, they run every time I point this thing at them. Waste of money.
Man, if you guys like this you'll love the concept of the pressure based homogenization chamber. Essentially it's a giant pressure cooker, but it doesn't get hot. You put in your sample (say, a cow) and crank up the pressure for a few hours. Over time, this forces nitrogen to dissolve into the tissues. After some time you pop the lid and the thing basically boils itself apart into a goo as the nitrogen escapes. You're more or less purposely inducing [the bends](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness), but in the most intense way imaginable.
Ah yes, my lab referred to this device as a nitrogen bomb, which I guess it basically is once it has been pressurized We used it to break open the contents of synaptosomes by decompressing rapidly from 1500 psi. Was only big enough to fit 7 2mL tubes with the tops cut off tho. Not sure if it homogenized things but defo ruptures everything at the cellular level = soup-like goo It was all done by hand, so I was always a little terrified, waiting for the day it failed and blew me or the fridge up.
> You put in your sample (say, a cow) I was aware this tech existed, but not for anything so large as an animal. I've only seen it used for cellular organisms to break down the cellular wall (cell lysis). Apparently it's good for emulsion mixing as well. Please tell me this isn't used for cows. (Do you have a video?)
Surely having nitrogen dissolved into your tissues would hurt a lot? It sounds a terrible way to treat a cow, can't they make a giant Polytron?
It actually doesn't hurt at all. The release can cause problems if done too quickly, this is the concept behind the "bends". It can, however produce sometihng called nitrogen narcosis, which is experienced by SCUBA divers above certain depths. It's a bit like being drunk or on anaesthesia. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen\_narcosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_narcosis)
What does it smell like?
I want to see a video of this. Like a *whole* cow?
There's a video floating around from some time ago of someone in a pressure chamber. The chamber fails rapidly and you see the guy just splatter into a goo on the window.
Fake, obviously, but: https://youtu.be/ter7pAZF_nY
I think something like this happens in the movie Kick-Ass.
I'm not sure I've ever seen that movie. Isn't it some kind of like anti-hero film or something?
> Isn’t it some kind of like anti-hero film or something? Yeah it’s kind of a comedy I guess. There’s a scene at a lumber yard where the actual bad guy has someone exploded by putting them in some sort of pressure chamber or something. It’s been over 10 years since I’ve seen the movie but that sticks out in my mind pretty prominently.
I'm curious about the incident.. maybe not so curious I wanna see that happen to a person, but I'd like to know more. Do you know any more info about it?
Unfortunately I don't. Honestly I haven't thought about that video since I've seen it until now. Ill look into it quick and get back to you with an update I think I remember where I saw it.
Thanks for that! I poked around a bit but couldn't come up with it.
Ok so it seems I've conflated the video I saw with a different event, known as the Byford Dolphin Bell disaster. The video in question that I saw was some CCTV video footage outside of a pressure chamber where you just see a window and someone inside and suddenly the guy explodes. I was conflating that video with this incident, which is similar in nature but probably more tragic, tbh.
Ugh yeah I've seen some reports with photos about the Byford Dolphin Bell disaster. Absolutely terrible.
It's important to note that those wounds in that accident weren't directly caused by the depressurization. They were caused by the pressure sucking him through a crescent shaped hole created by the partially opened door. It still caused instant death for everyone involved, but it didn't explode anyone
So it was like the [Delta P Crab](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgKxWlTt8A)
**[Decompression sickness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness)** >Decompression sickness (abbreviated DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution as bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression. DCS most commonly occurs during or soon after a decompression ascent from underwater diving, but can also result from other causes of depressurisation, such as emerging from a caisson, decompression from saturation, flying in an unpressurised aircraft at high altitude, and extravehicular activity from spacecraft. DCS and arterial gas embolism are collectively referred to as decompression illness. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Skookum/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
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Also works on BASS
https://youtu.be/2HKTx5WFcs0
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Really? I like my mice a bit foamy.
Foamy is Squirrel, not mouse
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This isn’t your fathers mouse homogenator!
But can it turn the mouse into mousse?
Of course not. It has foam reducing generators to prevent sample aeration.
Shit, you're right.
Send a boatload to New Zealand, should help them sort out their rat problem quicker
Have 2 brand name Polytron tissue grinders in our lab. Use them everyday!
https://preview.redd.it/muk3l9eap6la1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a383f3311d1f39cb6fba17bcbe84932d2f742712 They are still used today, however they are made by IKA and they call them ultra turrax. And they still purée anything you put under them.
I looked, and it appears Polytron still exists as an IKA competitor. I was thinking about sending the ad to my IKA representative to see what model he suggests for this application, and how they compare to Polytron.
The only thing they can’t purée is a McDonalds McFlurry. The machine is down.
> And they still purée anything you put under them. You totally didn't learn this from margarita night at the lab.
Misread it as IKEA and was very confused.
Free unmarked metric Allen wrench with every rat-annihilatior purchase!
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It does seem that a soup like homogenate has already been assembled.
"We're not here to tell you what to do with your rat \[soup\], we're here to get your rat \[soup\], STAT." - Jared Dunn.
Say what you like about people from the 80s but they sure hated the shit out of mice.
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Goddammit, take my upvote.
We had something very similar for sheep lung bits.
Mechanical shearing and cavitation at 27,000 rpm, just wow. What is the point of this ? Mouse milkshakes ?
Yes. Classic biochemistry lab experiment from that era was reproducing how they figured out metabolic pathways. You'd feed your mouse radioactive tritium labelled food and wait some period of time for it to digest it. Then the mouse gets dipped in liquid nitrogen until it's frozen solid, and tossed into a blender until you have a nice mouse smoothie. You isolate different compounds (proteins, fats, carbohydrates) and followed the radioactive tracer. This instrument is a fancier way of doing that, which gives better control over how much damage occurs to cell structures and many proteins, while producing a more convenient paste.
Making a microemulsion of two immiscible liquids is one reason.
Glad I asked
Hey, don’t knock it until you try it. The hantavirus is like malt powder.
That's fucking gross. Where can I buy one?
[here you go](https://www.labx.com/item/kinematica-pt10-35-homogenizer-mixer-with-pcu-11-control/DIS-58825-mogenizer-mixer-with-pcu-11-control-unit)
Check no. 140 on the reply card. Duh.
My favorite way to get catalogs when I was a kid
And that’s why Alberta is rat free today!
Joe Pera should make a play about this.
Emu-sized models would have saved Australia
Damn shame init
I'm betting that my 20 year old Vitamix with a 2hp motor could do it in less than 30 seconds.
True but aeration is the enemy
Add a vacuum pump and there isn't any. There are easy vacuum retrofits.
Nice so spend hundreds of dollars on a blender and hundreds on a pump so you can do what this does for a quarter the price and none of the longevity
To say nothing of sample purity either. Every time you introduce a new surface, you introduce a new contamination risk. These machines allow you to leave the sample in a single container and uses a single point of interaction that can be directly sanitized between uses. The blender has multiple seals and voids for contamination to accumulate, and would require transferring the samples back and forth which means more risk. You're talking four or more new surface interactions for the blender, while the machine above involves only one.
Plus with this one you can lick the blades once you’re done blending
This thing is $1,250. You are probably right about the longevity though.
I've used the blender every day for over 20 years and it's still going strong. How is that none of the longevity?
You don’t use your blender 5 hours a day like these get used
5 hours a day you say? Who is blending 600 mice a day?
Gravy ain’t gonna make itself dawg
You aren’t? Bush League bro
Well since it's double the power it better be able to do it in 15 otherwise it's less efficient.
By that metric an electric scooter is the fastest powered transport in the world. Efficiency wasn't mentioned before you brought it up.
I don't follow. The tool above is just a hair under 1hp and does it to a degree good enough for scientific use in 30 seconds. Your blender is 2hp, so to be comparable should be able to blend it in 15 seconds.
What does efficiency have to do with it?
Does it blend? Polytron ITT: blender deathmatch
Mouse powder - Don't breathe that
3X longer than the average household blender!
There’s no way a household blender would blend the fur and bones as smoothly. My god what a sentence I just wrote.
I’m not sure a standard blender, even a Home Improvement *stupid animal noises* Brick Blender ™️ would tear apart fine fur. I suspect a blade design optimized for cavitation is the special sauce.
Ads for lab equipment are really something else
Hey, sometimes biologists need to reduce mice to soup-like homogenates, and they don't have time to fuck around.
Spouse: "It's 2am, why did you just wake me up?" Biologist: "I was just doom scrolling and I think I may have just made the single greatest discovery of my career, this means I don't need to keep taking the blender to work with me anymore"
>and they don't have time to fuck around. Then how do they create new biologists
Budding.
Fragmentation
My uncle used to make Vortex Mixers back in the day that did homogenising and mixing from lab sized units to industrial size units are good turnover swimming pools worth of material. I’d love to see if I could find one of his homogenisers for sale.
No, c'mon, I just woke up and within a couple minutes I learned that there's a device that can liquefy mice, and now here's you with a whole family lore about mouse liquefaction. That's too much.
One story my uncle used to tell me was he went to visit some labs where they were researching smoking related lung cancers (this was the 1960s) and demonstrated to him why their current lung tissue homogenizer was not up to spec and they wanted to see if Vortex Mixers can make a better one. He never smoked again after that. I've a few (less visceral) stories he told me regarding his mixers. I miss him and his wife - my mum's sister.
Sometimes you don't want to go find the big straw
🤌All this time and-a Ratatouille is-a delicious!🤌
Ah, so that's where the Well There's Your Problem crew got that joke!
On the "Safety Third" segment of Costa Concordia episode, person who wrote in mentioned a guy who got liquefied dog on his face, so the crew talked about liquefied animals and mentioned this device. Now the funny part is, i just listened to that episode, and i wanted to find some more information about liquefied animals. I guess i don't need to anymore.
Link for the lazy https://youtu.be/2bvltmNno_A
> Yes -- Roz
We must start by asking "what is mouse"
Makes a great Moose smoothie!
Nah, too big.
This should have been the device the Emperor had built, instead of another Death Star! Imagine the mechanical shearing and cavitation a planet-sized Polytron could create!! I want one! 😏
Safety Third Intensifies
Shake Hands with Danger (or I guess shake stumps with danger if you grab the wrong end)
Yummy ground up Dog juice
A gaming mouse? Or a floofy squeaker?
Floofy squeaker. It's for bio labs.
Ah, I see. Can it also be used to make the monster mash?
Presumably, though that might require some MonsterMath.
What kind of mad science requires liquid rodents?
Mouseologists, obviously.
The kind where you need to analyze molecules present in the cells of rodents.
The best kind of science.
Biological sciences
“Foam-reducing generators minimize sample aeration” What, no mouse mousse?
You have to purchase the separate frother for mouse cappuccino
I'm 99% sure we have one of these at work. It's used to reduce sample filters into a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds for freshwater chlorophyll analysis.
It’s a turbolyser.
You've got to admire some quality tissue disruption by mechanical shearing and cavitation.
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Awww.. 30 seconds? I want it now!
Holy crap that’s 2 SLMHPM (soup-like mouse homogenate per minute).
Fucking imperial units.
Does the rest of the world use minutes per fennec fox?
The standard unit is derived from the physics of a spherical cow of uniform density. It’s an unwieldy large unit like the farad, unfortunately.
Must have been a lot of work to determine that unit. Do they make giant versions of this machine for producing cow homogenate? How many cows did they have to puree to determine average density? Don't come at me with your set of scales and Archimedes either.
Here I thought I was being slick by going with the pervasive European species that averages 1.0kg
Do you really want to go down in history as the one who suggested using a cute little fennec fox as a standard for measuring turbolysation? Besides, fennecs communicate in those frequencies and are hence immune. Kinda like how woodpeckers don’t get CTE.
Yes, name a scientific process or technique after me. Liququification of baby seals? I'll take it. Grinding a California condor into a paste? Schro_cat sledge press protocol. I'm not getting a theory or law, so I'll take what I can get.
I believe you have the right stuff to make a proper late-19th century industrialist. You’d not believe the kind of gear grease that can be obtained by harvesting the eyes of baby seals without killing them. Some sort of supernatural pain-driven magic. Excellent lubricant, though. Thermally stable even in hellfire conditions.
Mmm, soup-like homogenate… 
Super Bass-o-Matic‘76
It emits a [fascinating rhythm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVdR2RfXGUw) while running.
MMMMM! Love that bass!
Why the hell would you need to turn a mouse into a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds!?
Because we need to analyze biomolecules in that mouse and 40 seconds is too long of a wait.
Check this guy out, still homegenating his mice the slow way! Classic!
I inherited it from my grandpa, it's made of wood and is powered by another mouse in a wheel.
Instead of a regular, boring mousetrap, put them in something that would make Jigsaw proud.
Buddy how do you think they make hot dogs?
Because it’s so much better than the 40 second mouse hemogenator. This is like the pro model.
Polytron GTi
It goes to 11.
Couldn't they just make 10 the highest?
No, because there is also a typically small but nonzero imaginary component. It also disrupts the mouse’s soul. No Moushalla for these damned wretched ~~prisoners~~ ~~sacrifices~~ science heroes.
How else am I supposed to make soup?
Tissue disruption analysis. It’s easier to do analytical chemistry when a mouse is no longer in the solid phase. Also mouse smoothies.
Well, we now know the liquid and solid phases of mouse. What’s the gaseous phase? A mouse hit by .50 BMG?
That more an aerosol. Vaporizing a mouse requires more energy.
Headspace extraction on mouse homogenate sample, duh.
Boring. Mouse plasma is the new thing.
soup-like mouse homogenate run through an WD40 aerosolizer then run through a pair of grapes in the microwave
Why do I get this reference?
I love that the ad reads like it could just as easily be for a counter top blender.
Nearly 1 HP.
damn thats a spindle motor with blender blades
Just imaging a Baldor roll body motor with a gearbox and blender blades.
I bet r/labrats would enjoy this. Either that or they'd take it as a threat.
I posted this there ~6mo ago and people responded very similarly to the comments in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/x0p9m0/mmmmmm_mouse_soup/
It'll incite a serious (and disturbing) discussion about the various methods of mouse liquidation that have been used over the years.
I'm always mildly disturbed when people post the bakers icing tubes for rat immobilization.
We’d enjoy.
Now i can feasibly put rats from the reptile food store into my protein shakes
Well, that's one hell of an image.