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American astronaut John Young (who walked on the moon during Apollo 16's 1972 lunar mission) tests his suit's range of motion with a series of rulers mounted onto the frame of a space capsule, Dallas, Texas, 1964.![Down Is Up]()
A naval researcher tests the effects on animals of being upside-down for prolonged periods of time. Get more weird science at Life!![Dizzy Doctor]()
Future doctors at University of Michigan's Medical School participate in an experiment testing the mechanism of the inner ear, in 1950. Get more weird science at Life!![Force Field]()
Magnetism is made visible in a 1948 device, parts of which bear a striking, shudder-inducing resemblance to the huge carnivorous worms in Peter Jackson's King Kong. Get more weird science at Life!![Heli-Puller]()
The president of United Helicopters, Stanley Hiller Jr., leads a helicopter with a scarf tied to its front wheel in a demonstration for the company's stockholders. Get more weird science at Life!![Cracking Skulls]()
Director Edward R. Dye oversees skull-cracking experiments at Cornell in the late 1940s, in which researchers used imitation skulls to determine how to redesign aircraft interiors. See More: Full slideshow at LIFEWeird Science in Action
Science is imaginative, bold, iconoclastic -- and sometimes, when the gears mesh, the much-touted scientific method and the pure pursuit of knowledge can be wonderfully, movingly weird.
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