[Noisebridge-discuss] The rats are getting ballsy

[Rachel McConnell]

I'm pretty sure I have a UV light I got from some electronics surplus
place, it's something for beauty parlors about drying nail polish.
Don't know enough about UV radiation to know if there are large
variations in wavelength such that some will make rat piss visible and
some won't... I'll try to find it and bring it in Sunday (or to the
EPROM; come to think of it, high tech rat piss viewing is probably JUST
the kind of thing that would be a popular activity for drunk people).

Rachel

Gian Pablo Villamil wrote:
> The exploratorium has little ones on sale, the kind you use to verify
> currency. I can get them with employee discount.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:05 AM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:
>> +1 for UV light rat-tracing. anybody know how
>> to get a UV light?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:34 -0800, Gian Pablo Villamil wrote:
>>> FWIW, I did some reading on the subject, and there is clear evidence
>>> that rats are most active just before dawn and late at night, when
>>> people are not around.
>>>
>>> However, if rats are seen to be active when things are lit up, when
>>> people are around, and engaging in risky behavior to get food, this is
>>> a pretty good sign of a rat population explosion (not them getting
>>> more ballsy). They are driven to riskier behavior due to greater
>>> competition for food. This situation also makes them more aggressive.
>>>
>>> So chances are that there are a *lot* more rats moving around the
>>> space late at night than we are aware of.
>>>
>>> Apparently UV light shows up traces of rat urine, and shows where
>>> they've been. Might be an interesting experiment.
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