you know, we had a way of transporting horses way back in time; it was called "riding". basically the horses have legs and they can walk ... (/s)
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Funfact: there are several airlines specializing in horse transport. One of them is called "Air Horse One".
That must be incredibly scary for the horses.
My first thought is "what are they sedated on, and who injected them with it?" So sad.
My other thought was "why the heck did they need to travel somewhere?"
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LOL ITS LUNAR NEW YEAR YEAR OF THE HORSE so fitting 🤣
My zodiac animal is also horse LOL
This is what's wrong with this fucking world.
Flying goddamn horses, and people can't afford medicine or rent.
I've had it with all these motherfucking horses on this motherfucking plane!
Looks like they get pretty good leg room.
Neigh
This seems dangerous. What if the engines stall?
Don't worry, plenty of extra horse power
I don't understand, how do they get the food and drinks trolley past all that?
How else would they fly? They don't have wings
Fun fact: This was in fact a parabolic flight. NASA was trying to figure out how horses would behave on the ISS and if they can be used as emotional support animals for stressed out astronauts.
I'd suggest a sloth, instead. I feel like a sloth would get along just fine in zero-G.
Alright Bud, you go ahead and argue with Commander Williams, why he is not allowed to take his emotional support horsie on that space station.
Why...pray tell...would anyone want to know how horses would behave on the ISS? You couldn't even fit a horse in that thing!
I want this to be true.
i want this to be false.
it would be animal abuse
Name checks out.
I cannot imagine the vet bill were that true.
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The smell in there must be ungodly
Just wait until you have to peel back the gill liner during heavy check.
I choose to believe these are fake terms
Why are they flying horses, jesus, just pick up a rental horse at the destination.
Pegasus training
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I didn't read the article, but I assume they have to customize all the controls so a horse hoof can still operate them. That alone would make the cockpit huge.
They were. Just Google huge horse cockpits
Looks like they're standing, not flying. 🤔
I know it's weird because whenever I fly, I'm actually sitting.
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Like, I know why they wouldn’t put widows but I still think they should put windows
The horses would loose their fucking minds.
I wonder if they'd even understand what they were seeing.
What is that gray thing on their neck?
Neck pillow, duh.
Some sort of loose restraint so they can't rear back maybe?
Probably the same reason humans wear seat belts on an airplanes... prevents them from hitting the ceiling when the plane does a barrel role.
Thanks, Peppy Hare.
Maybe so they can’t bite each other
Ryanair taking notes.
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