Test results just in: cats do NOT have 9 lives

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“And a real use for cats...

http://www.oddee.com/item_91684.aspx

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To sink German ships

The earliest examples of cats being used in warfare dates back to the Ancient Egypt during a war against Persia. The Persians, fully aware of the reverance that Egyptians paid to their felines, rounded up as many cats as they could find and set them loose on the battlefield. When the Egyptians were faced with either harming the cats or surrendering, they chose the latter.

During World War I, cats were used in the trenches as an attempt to keep the rat population down and some cats were used as poison gas “detectors”.

The most creative way to use a cat as a weapon happened in World War II. The United States' OSS (Office of Strategic Services, the precursor of the CIA) needed a way to guide bombs to sink German ships. Somebody hit upon the inspiration that since cats have such a strong disdain of getting wet and always land on their feet that if you attached a cat to a bomb and drop it in the vicinity of a ship, the cat's instinct to avoid the water would force it to guide the bomb to the enemy's deck. It is unclear how the cat was supposed to actually guide a bomb attached to it as it fell from the sky but the plan never got past the testing stages since the cats had a bad habit of becoming unconscious mid-drop.

Not to be outdone by its predecessor, the CIA also attempted to use cats but this time as a bugging device during the Cold War. Although a disaster as a guided bomb, the CIA thought that a cat would make the perfect covert listening device in a project known as Operation Acoustic Kitty. They attempted to surgically alter the cat by placing a bugging device inside him and running an antenna through its tail. The project took five years and $15 million dollars before the first field test hit a slight snag when the bugged kitty was released near a Russian compound in Washington and was immediately hit by a car while crossing the street. The project was ended soon after.”

“OMG....is that true?????”

“I don't really care...the hilarity of it just hit me. Can you see being the poor "weapons developer" strapping a cat to a bomb in hopes it will guide it to a ship?

Or better yet....the CIA agent (Mission Impossible theme music playing in background) releasing "SPY KITTY MARK I"...dum dum da da dum dum....VEEEROAW (as the car goes speeding by...SPALT RARROW as SPY KITTY MARK I becomes Road Pizza?”

“i actually believe all of those except the bomb thing. and im tempted to half-believe that, given our govt.

try this experiment sometime: strap a piece of buttered bread, buttered side up, to a cat, and then drop. whenever you drop a cat, it always lands on its feet. whenever you drop a slice of buttered bread, it always lands buttered side down, therefore it is my prediction that they will end in a constant spinning state, both fighting to land on the floor, thus attaining levitation.
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“hmmm I have a cat and the bread and a 700 ft drop to the river.will the cat stear into the cliffs away from the water?how much bead? one piece or equal weight to cat?there ae falcons in the air as well hope they don't want the bread”

“I know the acoustic kitty was true. I also know that the russians experimented with dog bombs during WWII - they trained dogs to immediately run underneath nearby tanks with the idea of attaching a bomb to the dogs' back and unleashing them on the battlefield. The problem is that the dogs weren`t trained to differentiate between German tanks and Russian tanks... so I don`t know how effective the idea was.

Also, look up "bat bombs" (thanks wiki)... pretty interesting and innovative idea”

“Actually the Bats were used in Tokyo during the closing days of WW II”

“The Kitty-Hawk never sunk a boat.”

“Kitty Hawk? You mean the Carrier?

If so that would mean it did exactly as designed....the best weapon is the one you never have to use.”

“i saw an old clip of the dogs blowing up tanks. they were trained to go to a tank for food and then were starved before battle.”

“Then there is Cat Chasing...LOADS of fun

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/387170/the-great-cat-chase-a-skydiving-adventure-game”