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Old August 5th 17, 12:42 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.community
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Default Antarctic Expedition

Francesca the Fierce wrote in rec.pets.cats.community:

On 2017-08-02 17:34:07 +0000, Francesca the Fierce said:

On 2017-08-02 05:14:35 +0000, Sundance and/or Rebecca said:

Fur ennee kitteez innerestid, here iz sum info abowt da broked
ice shelf in Antartika:
https://sputniknews.com/environment/...89-nasa-new-im
ages-larsen-c-iceberg/Antartika Francesca, maybe dat will hewp
wif yurown flite plan. Oh, an da artikle sez dat rite now itz
dark awl day in Antartika, so I will hab flashlitez an lanternz
delibbered to da plane befur we takez off.

Rebecca


Eggzelent! Fangu.

FtF


[Francesca quietly disappears. Nothing much happens for a while, then
a noise can be heard approaching. A distant humming sound,
accompanied by a soft "thwap, thwap, thwap" noise. Moments later a
very large chopper appears. It find a clear space to land and settles
gently to the ground. As the engine stops and the rotors coast to a
stop, the side doors slide open. Francesca steps out wearing a
pilot's helmet, followed by Ranger. Aed and Morgana approach
cautiously.]

Aed: What kind of catacopter is dis? Why is it so big?

Morgana: An what is it used for?

FtF: Dis is a Katkorski KatterHauler. Iz da biggest caticopter dat
Katkorski makes, an dis one has a bunch of special features designed
by da late Harri Roadcat. First, you prolly noticed dat it isn't
furry loud.Da engine and rotors are special designed for quietude. An
take a look inside.

[Francesca leads them inside the craft.]

See deze seats? Dey's specially designed fur kitties. You can sit in
it like a hoomin seat. Or you can press dis button (paw shaped, of
course) and da seat back retracts, leaving you wif a nice comfy kitty
basket. An dis one is made special fur arctic work. When da seat is
in basket position, if it gets really cold in da cabin (like if da
catacopter doors are open), you press dis yellow button on da edge of
da seat, and ...

[Francesa pushes the button. The retracted seat back reappears, rises
a little bit then folds forward, making a roof over the cat basket.
Once the roof is in place, a transparent shield extends from what had
been the top of the seat back and folds down, forming a completely
enclosed kitty space.]

An da seat is temperature controlled. It has a cooler an a heater in
it, to keep da occupant comfy at all times.

Aed: Wow! That is very cool! But with all of these special kitty
seats, running cooling or heating for all of those seats must use an
awful lot of power. If the engine isn't running, how long can the
seats continue to heat or cool?

FtF: Dat's one of da coolest parts! Come back here, to da back of da
cargo area.

[Francesca leads them through the spacious cargo hold, back to a
closet set into a side wall. She pops open a maintenace hatch,
revealing a gleaming silver donut-shaped device with a steel access
hatch over the middle.]

Dis is a special fuel cell designed by Miss Amelia. I dun't know why
it never went into full production - it's furry useful. DIs fuel cell
runs on hairballs, and a single hairball can keep all da seats fully
powered for a week. Give it a dozen hairballs and it could run a
small city fur a munth! Even a hoomin city. Even a city wif goggies.


{Iowna, Daisy-chan and Cash arrive}

Iowna turns to Cash and asks what hairballs are. Cash looks at
Daisy-chan and grins then tells Iowna, something we don't seem to have
our local kittah generate in the form of furballs. I think I saw one
once... Mostly we all just make loose fur. Maybe it can be balled up?
If so, we'z got enough to knit a 50lb ball probably...


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