Cats, when dropped under normal conditions, will invariably rotate their bodies longitudinally in mid-air and land on their feet. This automatic reflex action is almost completely lost when gravity is removed and you kick them into the ceiling.
This experiment also proves that weightless cats are, indeed, hilarious.
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This is on my short list of coolest science video I’ve ever come across.
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…and how they faked it
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A beautiful and inspiring fan-made NASA commercial, created with Carl Sagan’s narration.
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Here’s some rare footage of an experimental LSD session from a television program, circa 1956, about mental health issues.
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Try as you might, you can’t walk in a straight line without a visible guide point, like the Sun or a star. You might think you’re walking straight, but as NPR’s Robert Krulwich reports, a map of your route would reveal you are doomed to walk in circles.
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Part of an experiment to test a nuclear reactor’s wall’s strength.
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“Mark W. Moffett (a.k.a. “Doctor Bugs”) tells the horrifying yet humorous story of a parasitic larva called a botfly entering his hand during an expedition to Belize. The maggot took ten weeks to grow to “maturity,” surviving Mark’s subsequent trips to Honduras, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. It finally emerged on 2 December 2010, at the end of a meeting with the environmentalist E.O. Wilson at Harvard.”
Gross. But pretty cool too.
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I really want to do this.
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I had no idea water did this! So cool.
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Science!
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This is why I have a love/hate relationship with the ocean.
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Seems like an inefficient way to fill a pool.
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Makes me think of “Lee Carvello’s Putting Challange extreme difficulty.”
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Hard to believe this only has 300 views. I think it’s gonna blow up big time. May even see it in an Apple ad.
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