This is a little weird (only a little, you say?).  ”Music to watch a plane crash by”.  Indeed.

It seems that sometime (possibly in 1998), NASA did a CFIT (that’s Controlled Flight Into Terrain, aero-speak for “a good and working plane bumping into the earth for reasons other than safe landing”) test using what looks to my untrained eye to be a large commercial airliner (knowing that doesn’t take training, know what kind it is does).  They later posted video footage they took on the Web, as a series of snippets with a voice-over explaining the footage.  This NASA footage can be found here.

(While I know that this was done for legitimate purposes, I can’t help but think how cool it must be to be able to blow stuff up at work.)

Coudal Partners (who? dunno) sponsored a contest to set this footage to music, attracting several entrants.  The winning entry can be found here.

Well not really, but how many reasons would they have to take a cat and toss it around in one of their zero-G experimentation platforms (colloquially known as “vomit comets”)?

Not 24 hours after creating the “Stranger than Fiction” topic here and wondering if I’d ever find anything to post in it, I stumble over this.  Look here for the post on Boing Boing, or go straight to the video here (if it hasn’t been removed yet!).