>>13663735Well stuffing an animal into a rocket and launching it up to ISS is extremely stressful and confusing. It has no clue why everything changes around it and I'm pretty sure these cats on the vc were just panicking because what they experienced was something comparable to an incontrollable freefall from a lethal height, or loss of control, like somebody who just woke up after an accident, without a few limbs. Sheer terror.
For comparison what would you think would happen if NASA captured one of these tribal dudes from that one island nobody's allowed to visit and put him in the vomit comet without any explanation? How would this individual react to the sensation of weightlessness? I tell you how, he would be bloody shit scared, exactly like the cats they used.
A native 0g cat will experience it's environment up there as normal and naturally adapt to it. I'm pretty sure that jumping from A to B is instinctive and this will perfectly suit a space environment adapted to having cats living on it.
Modifications such as:
-removal of massive spaces where the cat could float around without contact to walls for minutes
-carefully spaced out velcro pads for the cat to cling to.
It would be interesting on the other hand how a 0g cat, that isn't too underdeveloped in the muscle department, would react to gravity.
