SideburnSlim: HippieBikerScumFromMars: More farked up than anti gravity cat, in more ways than one... I give you...

LSD Cat! (new window)

This is almost painful to watch, if it weren't so funny.

Except the cat isn't really on LSD.


How do you know this?

Some 'Splainin' To Do: I hate to be the killjoy (and yet here I am) but I'm having a hard time seeing the amusement of taking a cat into an environment where it's going to think that it's continuously falling (which, of course, it is).

I'm sure the cat didn't suffer any permanent trauma but given that the cat would have no way of understanding what was happening to it and given that it was probably in a state of abject terror during the entire experience, I'm having a little trouble appreciating the funny.

/Flame away

I agree with you... but IT'S STILL FREAKIN FUNNY!

/Cats=torture toys
//they ask for it anyway
//wishing the cat would quit looking at me like that

Dr_Bojangles: Nestea Plunge: acid dog (new window)

Old Mother Hubbard
went to the cupboard
to get her poor dog a 'lude

If you can't share your shiat with your pets, you don't really love them.

Friends and I once gave a parakeet some ground up crossroads (speed). He kept us up all FARKing night with his singing.

We put a cat in a shopping bag and filled it with pot smoke then spun it around. He kept us out all night trying to rub up against our legs.

My friend included his four-foot iguana in our huddle of shotgun hits off a bowl of blond Lebanese hash. When he started hissing and snapping his tail I told them I think I hear my mother calling me and left.

I'd leave too, if my friend was hissing and snapping his tail... wait, what?

Somebody should re-edit that video with audio to have the cover 'The Twist' by Chubby Checker, then nobody could get mad because the cat is just trying to dance....

That is horrible...

...ly funny!

brifar: thats not cool....shiat like that could give the cat a heart attack

That's the whole point.

Nestea Plunge: acid dog (new window)

that looks more like a dog on Ecstasy

That really wasn't a real experiment, was it? The astronaut who kept throwing it at the wall is a first-class idiot...

Why don't we take him into zero-g for the first time, and instead of giving him a chance to get used to it, repeatedly toss him against a wall?

...sigh... NASA IS in Florida, so I guess it's to be expected.

rebelyell2006: brifar: thats not cool....shiat like that could give the cat a heart attack

That's the whole point.


well last time i checked a cat and human heart werent the same...so again, what was learned in this experiment

Sparklee: My cat likes to be swung around while inside a laundry basket. She would make a great catstronaut! I haven't been able to do it long enough to make her puke, though. LOL

My cat and the 3 foster kittens we have LOVE that game! It's funny to see them climb in an empty basket, peek over the edge, and meow until we swing them.

FeBolas: Hank Rearden: Did they really have to keep throwing it against the wall?

....yes, yes they do.

Heh, Nice.

/bong!

No Such User: verbal_jizm: 4 spinning legs with face snagging meat hooks attached to a panicked and inherently unstable animal. What's a bad idea about that?

That reminded me of this great video Kitty getting a bath (new window)

Proof that waterboarding is not torture

I wondered what was so funny about it. Then I watched it. "Comedy Gold" is correct FTW!

techmom: The 'experiment' really doesn't prove whether a cat could adapt to an extended period of free-fall; the few seconds of zero-G you get in the 'Vomit Comet' is just enough to terrify the animal. Who would already be disturbed from being flung at the wall.

As for zero gravity dog - nobody was throwing him around.

/not amused

Yea, but the thing is there is just something about cats that makes you wanna huck 'em against walls. I can vouch for this sentiment.

Y'all don't have to worry about that cat. It's been dead for some years now.

Not sure why the guy felt like he had to wing the cat at the wall. Just letting it float would have been pretty cool, too.

But, hey, who am I to judge kitty torture techniques? I'm just an amateur.

Nestea Plunge: acid dog (new window)

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just dont seem the same
Actin funny, but I dont know why
scuse me while I lick my balls

What I find funny, is the people complaining in here are the same ones posting and laughing at LOL Cats. Cause you know, this guy looks like he's having a blast too!



/farking hipocrits

canyoneer: Innismir

I've got a better idea: Scrap the worthless p.o.s. ISS and let these spam-in-a-can test pilots get real, productive jobs on Earth, like driving garbage trucks or manning the drive-thru at McDonald's.

Awww, muffin.

brifar: rebelyell2006: brifar: thats not cool....shiat like that could give the cat a heart attack

That's the whole point.


well last time i checked a cat and human heart werent the same...so again, what was learned in this experiment

Different ways to kill cats in low gravity?

I....was not expecting that. I had to crunch down and clench my teeth to keep from busting out laughing in the cube farm here. Quite painfull!

/you win this round subby....

Damn I love seeing cats being abused.

When we're fighting the Kilrathi in 600 years, we'll be glad our scientists did this type of research.

/obscure in the real world
//but not on Fark

Lamune_Baba
For those of you animal lovers boo-hooing about a poor kitty:

PETA would have killed the cat and threw it in a dumpster. Because they love animals!

Yes, because if PETA is hypocritical and messed up (and they are), there should be no ethical standards whatsoever. It's not like normal people can be concerned with cruelty. Only PETA.

I agree with people who said that if this was done in the context of legitimate research and with proper thought to make it as humane as possible, it's OK. It's a pity we don't know the full context of this.

Oh, and shutting down NASA would be short-sighted. Science is not linear and isolated. It's all connected, and we need to invest more into open and legitimate research.

/loves animals, hates PETA

Catastrophic.

Did you ever stop to think that maybe that was a terrorist cat? Maybe that cat snuck a box-cutter onboard, and was threatening to crash the plane into the nearest PetSmart? It seems pretty obvious that those brave astronauts risked their lives in mortal combat with an evil member of al Kitty.

/9-11! 9-11! 9-11!
//let's (barrel) roll

dc-kid: Nestea Plunge: acid dog (new window)

that looks more like a dog on Ecstasy

I dunno, it looked like MY dog after her bath - she runs around and rubs against everything, trying to get the water off, then tears through the place at 110 mph just going apeshiat.

Also, the dog in the video looks like it still has wet fur between its shoulder blades.

/Just sayin...

canyoneer 2007-12-05 09:56:26 AM
Innismir: "Because nothing good came out of the manned space program."

Nothing has come out of it that couldn't have come out of basic research programs on the ground for less money. Don't you think it's a little convoluted to solve problems by spending billions sending toilets and oxygen tanks and test pilots and teddy bears into orbit? For the same money, you could get ten times as much research done without the Rube Goldberg poop-in-a-tube astronaut mechanism.

I have no problem with space exploration by robots and remote sensors, but sending people out of the atmosphere to float around and look out the window is a waste of money, and is actually robbing funds from productive space programs. How many satellites and deep space probes and robot landers could be built and launched with the money we've pissed away on the Shuttle and ISS?


THIS!

This cat-posting BS is BS. But, I still find many of them amusing. Quite amusing.

Oh and weed. LSD and whatnot have no effect on a cat or a dog. How do I know? I don't. I just think it's dumb to share your shiat with a cat.

That was funny.

But I still like Girl and Weightless Barf

Link (pops new window and not a Rick Roll)

Di Atribe

And I bet you're a regular at Trekkie conventions.

GardenWeasel: The video comes from a 1985 experiment, and although the feline suffered no ill effects, it died in 2001 at the age of 16.

That said, it doesn't sound like the experiment was officially sanctioned.

USA Today (pops)

Pretty full lifetime for a cat.

Santa Cat is bringing all of you farkers coal this year.



/but I laughed.

Too bad we couldn't get weightless dog, weightless cat, and weightless barfing girl into the same plane.

Weightless Barfing Girl one more time

Definitely comedy gold. That's the hardest I've laughed in a little while.

Nice work, team.

Interesting. Now lets see what happens when we blow a cat out of an airlock.

Dawnrazor: Did you ever stop to think that maybe that was a terrorist cat? Maybe that cat snuck a box-cutter onboard, and was threatening to crash the plane into the nearest PetSmart? It seems pretty obvious that those brave astronauts risked their lives in mortal combat with an evil member of al Kitty.

/9-11! 9-11! 9-11!
//let's (barrel) roll

Win!

QU!RK1019: Hank Rearden: Did they really have to keep throwing it against the wall?

FeBolas: ....yes, yes they do.

I can't stop laughing at this.

Me too. I love that the very first thing the guy does when they begin the "experiment" is throw the cat against the wall. Nice. Real nice :)

/loves cats
//still laughed
///still laughing

That was AMAZING.

LSD Cat! (new window)

This is almost painful to watch, if it weren't so funny.

No, just painful.

BEST. VIDEO. EVER.

canyoneer: Innismir

I've got a better idea: Scrap the worthless p.o.s. ISS and let these spam-in-a-can test pilots get real, productive jobs on Earth, like driving garbage trucks or manning the drive-thru at McDonald's.

That would be a tremendous use of human potential (rolls eyes). The great beauty of the miracle of life should be all about getting Real Jobs^TM and being sure to work extra hard in the Real World^TM. This is what we should all strive for because it's the only thing that matters. I mean really, that's what life's all about right? We were put here to produce shiat continuously so we can continuously buy it then throw it away. Ain't life grand? No higher aspirations, no need for abstract driven thought. Just us and the economy makin' money. You're concerned about the "waste of money"? How about cutting the defense budget. There's your pork sir, not at NASA.

canyoneer: This is yet more evidence that the manned space flight program is nothing more than an expensive stunt - a carnival ride for egotistical test pilots and a gravy train for defense companies.

Didn't make it into the Air Force JROTC, eh?