Sunday, October 24, 2004

Dept. of Free Falling Tax Dollars Yes, that's right- the USAF has been using our tax dollars to TORTURE CATS. Cat-tossing in Zero-G -- Seekrit Air Force Movie. Xeni Jardin: Moments such as this make the thankless, burdensome toil of bloggerhood worthwhile. BoingBoing reader Vann says, "I wish I'd stumbled across this clip before your zero-G flight." I couldn't agree more. Link to quicktime movie of some people throwing a live cat around in zero gravity on a "vomit comet." The file is linked from an Air Force website for an online education class called " COCKPIT PHYSICS: Physics Instruction for the Twenty-First Century." The website doesn't appear to be a joke, nor does the cat-tossing QuickTime clip, presumably intended to illustrate the science that governs cruelty to fluffy, innocent housepets in reduced gravity environments. [Boing Boing] Hank Hill said it best... 9:53:32 PM     leave/read comments []