Frankly, I’m amazed we haven’t seen this already, given it combines two of the internet’s favourite things: cats and science. This old footage of cats being subjected to the sense of weightlessness is fascinating – illustrating that the feline’s lose their ability to land on their feet when they don’t have gravity to help them. It also includes kittehs, and therefore demands your attention, seeing as how you’re currently on the net.
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Why does your home stereo system sound like shit? Because it’s not floating on magnets, of course. With the Zero Gravity shelf, your stereo gains powers of levitation that would be better applied to just about anything else.
It’s not hard to spend $US16,000 (or much, much more) on a wedding. So you might as well get a zero gravity flight out of the deal.
newVideoPlayer("/futuramaVAMspace_gizmodo.flv", 475, 286,""); This exclusive extra off the last of four Futurama movies shows Matt Groening and David X. Cohen bouncing around in simulated zero-G like a meatspace Bender and Fry.
