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2012-06-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Artist turns his dead cat into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car

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Posted by gorb 2012-06-05 02:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 A mechanized "Sail Cat".

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2012-06-05 03:58|| 2012-06-05 03:58|| Front Page Top

#2 For our younger, cloistered or foreign readers - they got a thing called a "sail cat", as descried by the late Jonathan Winters. You see when a cat is run over on the highway it just lays there for days. More cars and trucks keep runnin' over the dang thing. It gets flatter and flatter and dryer and dryer. Finally, some kid will go out there and peel this flat, dead, carcass off the highway, then fling it, like a Frisbee, across a corn field, just to see how far it will go. You know, a "sail cat"!

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-06-05 08:35|| 2012-06-05 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Sick people.
Bury the damn thing.
And cry.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2012-06-05 08:48|| 2012-06-05 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Finally, a cat that is useful.

/I keed; had various cats over decades

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2012-06-05 09:41|| 2012-06-05 09:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Fantastic! But his piloting skills are more than a bit lacking.

Posted by AzCat 2012-06-05 10:48|| 2012-06-05 10:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Mad dogs and Englishmen.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-06-05 12:13|| 2012-06-05 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Should have made a pitbulcopter. Send that at the Jihadi's in Afghanistan.

Posted by Charles 2012-06-05 14:03|| 2012-06-05 14:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Watching the flight it is unbalanced. That's where a good micro-controller should be on-board to fudge the power to each blade to compensate for the imbalance.

Posted by Water Modem 2012-06-05 17:07|| 2012-06-05 17:07|| Front Page Top

#9 I've seen vids of quadcopters doing synchronized precision flight. Maybe his control algorithms suck. Or need some time to learn, depending on the approach.

If you are going jihadi-hunting, you want one made from a pig. You could make heads explode - literally.

Posted by SteveS 2012-06-05 19:11|| 2012-06-05 19:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Now there's an idea; gonna needs some blaring music.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-06-05 19:20|| 2012-06-05 19:20|| Front Page Top

#11 It's the cat's "land on your feet" algorithms conflicting with the quadricopters stabilization algorithms that is causing the instability.

Posted by gorb 2012-06-05 22:44|| 2012-06-05 22:44|| Front Page Top

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