Found: raw footage of the Nyan cat experiments circa 1962.

Only took an additional 50 years of testing to deduce all you need is the Internet, a pop tart and tolerance for gays in order to produce a space cat with the ability to captivate the world. Sure, such conclusions were reached via torture, but I’ll lay my moral compass aside for such ecstasy. I mean, sometimes you have to sacrifice for science. And if science brings me Nyan, Maru and approximately 4,000 aww’s and counting--well then--may science prevail.