Millions of our tax dollars to spend on animal cruelty...?
Way to go NASA, way to go.
Way to go NASA, way to go.
yeah, its to test the funny captions that could pop up in front of cats without gravity.
"Hey, lets through this cat at a wall!"
"Good idea NASA!"
"Good idea NASA!"
Thats a bit mean...its not like let it go and see what happens, it is "LETS THROW IT AT THE WALL LULZ!".
How much money is thrown at NASA for shit like that?
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enough to give that cat the rights to the lolcats franchiseFlecco wrote:
How much money is thrown at NASA for shit like that?
cruel bastards.
I don't think this is NASA's work. I think it's more a private person who's done it. I don't think NASA's got a hotmail e-mail...
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
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all right, who can come up with the best lolcat caption
come on. cats are natures little brothers. its fun to push them around and see what happens.TimmmmaaaaH wrote:
Thats a bit mean...its not like let it go and see what happens, it is "LETS THROW IT AT THE WALL LULZ!".
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
In zero gravity at that speed I doubt it hurt the cat. Goddamn animal activists crying murder over nothing..
I'm not animal activist...I'm a member of PETA (People for the eating of tasty animals), and I dont even find the cat being tossed at the wall that bad. Perhaps it was to see if the cat would grab hold...who knows. But they werent brutal impacts.
What bothers me about this is, a cat maintains and finds its balance, or center if you will, via fluids in a chamber in its skull. This is how they right themselves when falling, and always (almost) land on there feet.
Know what happens to fluid in zero-G? Thats right, it forms little spheres and wants to randomly float around...
This is why the cat was flailling around and twisting its body wildly. The fluids in its ears were going apeshit and the cat couldnt right itself, I'm sure that was not pleasant for our little feline friend. I'll bet it had a brutal headache after this too.
What bothers me about this is, a cat maintains and finds its balance, or center if you will, via fluids in a chamber in its skull. This is how they right themselves when falling, and always (almost) land on there feet.
Know what happens to fluid in zero-G? Thats right, it forms little spheres and wants to randomly float around...
This is why the cat was flailling around and twisting its body wildly. The fluids in its ears were going apeshit and the cat couldnt right itself, I'm sure that was not pleasant for our little feline friend. I'll bet it had a brutal headache after this too.
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I wonder how much piss and diarrhea they had to clean up after they where done with the cat
I assume a cat's semicircular canal is similar to that of a human
And humans seem to do just fine in zero g, so I really do not see the "cruelty/torture" of the cat.
source: http://www.lookd.com/cats/anatomy.htmln the cat, as in humans, the inner ear--a bony structure of fluid-filled semicircular canals--contains a complicated mechanism for maintaining body balance.
And humans seem to do just fine in zero g, so I really do not see the "cruelty/torture" of the cat.
yeah throwing a cat into a wall isn't cruelty at all.FlemishHCmaniac wrote:
I assume a cat's semicircular canal is similar to that of a humansource: http://www.lookd.com/cats/anatomy.htmln the cat, as in humans, the inner ear--a bony structure of fluid-filled semicircular canals--contains a complicated mechanism for maintaining body balance.
And humans seem to do just fine in zero g, so I really do not see the "cruelty/torture" of the cat.
In zero g at that speed it isn't, no.
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Although slightly cruel (even though probs didn't harm the cat at all), I have to say, lol.
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I wonder what the cat was thinking as it flailed through the air.
Probably "meow."Tetrino wrote:
I wonder what the cat was thinking as it flailed through the air.
Albert II, a Rhesus Monkey, became the first monkey in space on June 14, 1949, in a U.S.-launched V2 rocket. Upon return to earch, Albert II died on impact after a parachute failure.
And there are some who never came back. That cat is fortunate to have so many people to ensure it's safety during the mission.
A salute to it's Monkey cousins, the true pioneers of the stars!
And there are some who never came back. That cat is fortunate to have so many people to ensure it's safety during the mission.
A salute to it's Monkey cousins, the true pioneers of the stars!
Space Monkey was the true hero of the space race.TheAussieReaper wrote:
Albert II, a Rhesus Monkey, became the first monkey in space on June 14, 1949, in a U.S.-launched V2 rocket. Upon return to earch, Albert II died on impact after a parachute failure.
And there are some who never came back. That cat is fortunate to have so many people to ensure it's safety during the mission.
A salute to it's Monkey cousins, the true pioneers of the stars!
Yea "throwing" the cat at the wall at that speed in Zero G wouldn't have done anything to it...
Besides scare the shit out of it.
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