What would it be like if we brought pigeons into outer space? Well, you’d have a lot of crazed and confused pigeons, that’s what. How come more of our space budget can’t go towards projects like these?
Quick pedantry: the pigeons aren’t technically in zero gravity; the effect is actually an illusion, achieved by inertia from the plane’s parabolic path. OK, now back to watching those goofy birds be goofy! [The Daily What]
GarthP
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 8:14 AMAll “zero gravity” is an illusion caused by falling along a parabolic or circular path. Orbiting in a space craft or satellite is just constantly falling with enough perpendicular velocity that you never hit the ground. There is nowhere in the universe that is truly “zero gravity”.
RJAWG24
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 9:09 AMThis is the kind of animal testing that everybody can enjoy. Which way will the crap drop?
meh
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 11:17 AMCats on Acid is better.