The United States Air Force set up the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories to determine what would happen to our astronauts before we launched them into space . A brief documentary from the dawn of the Space Age is a absorbing time capsule of other research , accomplishments , and fear .
The docudrama covering the then - ignore - edge bioastronautics research is hypnotizing . In just under 14 min , the narrator calmly covers launching people with an F-104 and F-106 ouster seats ; disorienting cats and boo with zero - gravitational attraction flight in a C-131 airplane ; leaving a mental testing issue in body - temperature piddle for 24 hours to see what it does to their tolerance for acceleration or heat , and their power to nail complex co - ordination tasks ; and last dropping , shaking , and tilting test subjects in a variety of rig to see what will hap .
The full video spans 13.5 minutes ; it ’s just as amazing as it voice . The water armored combat vehicle run is almost an former version of a sensory deprivation tank , douse the subject in body - temperature water for 24 hour . The drop cloth - rigs are base on theMercury capsules , ensuring that future - astronauts can plausibly outlive the unsmooth landings without being splattered on impact . And through it all , that classic era - teller maintains a calm , at times proud demeanor , never once busting out in laugh or shock at the experiments .
By asking , Airboyd also released a clip of just the disoriented pigeon , conform to by the same clip in slow - motion for spare disorient - flying action . It ’s much more chomp - sized , taking up less than a minute of your day .
Pigeons flying in zero sombreness are intelligibly bemused to be arouse up and flung around , but they can still fly . And unlike the weightless - kitten - clip , no one casually kicks them into the ceiling . ( take down : the computerized axial tomography is foot - poke at more than instantly - kick back , but I ’m jolly sure that is the moment feline - retaliation becomes inevitable . )
Tip viaxkcd . For more footage of animals coping with no gravity , contain this Wiredlist .
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