Mastodawn

How did we populate the solar system? Gradually, as the saying goes, then all at once.

Things went so much smoother after we internalized the truth that it is bad luck to go to space without a ship’s cat.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Where_Cat_Is_Is_Civilization

@Unixbigot "If we had to send cats to do space exploration on Earth's behalf, who knows what cosmic abominations they would bring proudly home to show us." 🤣

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-put-cats-in-microgravity-to-see-what-would-happen

Scientists Put Cats in Microgravity to See What Would Happen

There is, perhaps, no animal on this planet as lithe as the simple domestic cat.

ScienceAlert

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Ben Evans 3h ago

@JeanieBurrell @Unixbigot Remake of The Colour Out of Space but it's dragged in by the cat.

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book_dragon 3h ago

@kittylyst @Unixbigot Oh man I just had to go watch the trailer for that. The Nic Cage one. Looked terrible. Either kitty could drag in a meteorite, or return from downplanet having rolled in the cursed dust of the "blasted heath."