Cats in space!

[giza]

No, really. Ever wonder how cats handle Zero G? Well...

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Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that's cruel

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Wow. Yes, it's a never-ending feeling of falling .... rotate to land, but the land doesn't co-operate. ::sheesh::, poor cat!

[duncandahusky.livejournal.com]

A cat spinning in zero G will tend to remain spinning...

Man, at the very end, look how the poor thing's tail is poofed out!

[pawsie.livejournal.com]

that says aninmal cruelity in 3 different layers.

[alphaggek.livejournal.com]

That's not fair! They all had time to acclimate. They should give the cat a chance to acclimate as well!

[kellic.livejournal.com]

I was about to say the same thing. Poor kitty should have been simply released, then caught, released, caught. Not thrown across the dang cabin. Not fair!!!

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

The walls are heavily padded to prevent injuring the passengers as the vehicle goes into and out of freefall. Kitty wasn't harmed at all.

[kellic.livejournal.com]

Yah I know about the Vomit Comet. Harmed no. Scared to molt...yes. It would have been an entirely different matter if they had just released kitty a few times to float around the cabin. Get use to it before throwing her across the cabin. Not cool.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

How do you know they didn't, before this clip starts?

[gen-talon.livejournal.com]

Quite silly on that cat. Trys to right itself..freaks out and keeps spinning.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that cat is on the vomit comet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomit_Comet

[elfasi.livejournal.com]

This is a good example of what a cat would do if you tied a slice of buttered toast to its back and dropped it...

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

It proves that a cat with a piece of buttered toast on its back will, in fact, form an antigravity system.

[nbowa.livejournal.com]

LOL Damn... beat me to it! :P

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

It's all in a day's work for... Confuse-a-Cat.

[unkbar.livejournal.com]

Several years ago, it might have been at the Constellation, the Baltimore Worldcon, Dr. Jerry Pournelle told the tale of an ad-hoc experiment with a cat and zero-G that happened, I think, back in the 60's.

Basically, they hooked up a movie camera on the top of a fighter jet's instrument panel, shooting back into the cockpit. They put the local officer's club's pet cat in a sack, took off, and started flying parabolas.

When the pilot let the terrified kitty loose, it puffed up all its fur, extended it's claws, and as if propelled by magnetic force floated directly to the pilot's face and latched on with a death grip. Remember, this is all on film.

The pilot finally managed to dislodge the cat and land the plane safely. Taxiing back, he cracked open the canopy and the cat leapt out and dashed off the runway. It was a week or so before the cat reappeared at the OC. The pilot's face took rather longer than that to heal.