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2 months agoThe only one (of 15) to survive the procedure escaped the lab and was promptly hit by a car.
The only one (of 15) to survive the procedure escaped the lab and was promptly hit by a car.
Yeah… I guess people have tossed chains on other high voltage installations to cause self-destruction. We might be talking ”burned” a bit to literally?
That would avoid the use of fossil fuels :-)
They did say it was a nine-figure electric pole… premium German engineering ;-)
I like that Vice dusted of the Motherboard brand for this story… also, wren’t they moving their main offices to SA and becoming a lifestyle brand like a year and a half ago?
They’re spies, so lying is like 90% of what they do ;-)
I tend to believe the whole project was an ill conceived failure and someone within CIA made up hit-by-a-car story to avoid a lengthy explanation.
Radio transmitter in a cat sounds plausible in 2011 but it would have been a much trickier proposition in 1960. Certainly not impossible but the part I always come back to is the power supply. You either need lots of batteries or a way to activate it externally without a lot of drain before you do.
Covering up animal cruelty. I wouldn’t be surprised if they incinerated the poor things just to make sure there was no chance of the research getting out :-(
I absolutely made that number up 😅 I’ve got a book at home that’s more coffee table curiosity than serious reference material that had some details of the project. I recall that there were numerous failures but couldn’t remember how many, but 14 failures plus one viable was what my brain offered… so I bet you’re right about french space cats!