Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences |
Notice: | FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY |
Moderator: | MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO |
Created: | Sun Feb 09 1986 |
Last Modified: | Tue Jan 11 1994 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Number of topics: | 5089 |
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This is an extract from something that showed up in my mailbox from the USENET this morning; I thought you would all enjoy it. I know my cats would act *just* like this! Rita ********************************************************************** Soon after the first experiments with zero-G in ballistic cargo planes (late 50's, early 60's?) some whiz kid decided to test the oft-asserted but never before tested theory that cats would do well in zero gravity conditions. This was not important enough to justify the flight of the full scale cargo plane, so they sent a cat up in a fighter with a camera mounted in the cockpit to monitor. Most of the film shows the pilot frantically trying to remove the cat from his arm. At one point the pilot succeeded in pulling the cat off and hanging it in midair. However (perhaps due to some unknown feline discipline, or perhaps imperfect zero-G) the cat magically flew back to the pilots arm and stayed for the rest of the flight, despite strenuous attempts to the contrary.
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874.1 | Cats know all about *selective* gravity... | HLIS07::VISSERS | N..N..NOTorious! | Thu Nov 05 1987 12:59 | 14 |
:-):-) Great! That should learn them something! Some time ago I did an experiment on Omar (not really, I just wanted him to have a bath) and I discovered cats & water reject each other. I swear there was this moment that there was *no* support for Omar, just gravity pulling him down, and *both* my hands were above him, pushing him down towards the water, next split second he actually sat on my head! I've paid good attention to the physics lessons at school and I'm convinced there's no scientific explanation for this event... I've solved the bathing problem, though. We now shower *together*. Ad |