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Flipping cat physics

milkb0at — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:20:09 -0800

The physics of how cats flip their bodies to land feet first also allows spacecraft to turn. Flipping cats [previously] is interesting. It's even more interesting if your dad works at NASA and you have access to people who use flipping-cat physics to make spacecraft turn in space.

cjorgensen — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:03:27 -0800

High Speed Video of Flipping Cats A video in which a man claims watching him attempt to flip a cat (without pissing people off) will make you smarter. Bonus intro video. Gratuitous Father Guido Sarducci

furtive — Wed, 11 May 2011 09:53:55 -0800

Do cats always land on their feet? No. Unless...

Fizz — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:46:49 -0800

Weightless Cats and other fun experiments. An excerpt from from coverage of research at the Aerospace Medical Division Hq 657Oth Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories including scenes of F-104 seat ejection; drop tests from C-130 and ejection from F-106; effects of weightlessness on cats and pigeons in a C-131; test subjects in water tank, on centrifuge, in heat chamber and on complex coordinator. Also, scenes of vertical deceleration tower, incline impact test facility, vertical accelerator, equilibrium chair and vibration platform. More videos can be found at Airboyd.tv: Accident Animations, Aviation Films, Military Flight Training Films, and Space Shuttle Vidoes.

Daddy-O — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:36:45 -0800

Scientists have finally discovered tyhe physics of how cats drink.

not_on_display — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:16:11 -0800