The secret of anti-gravity
I thought I'd share this little gem.Q: If you drop a buttered piece of bread, it will fall on the floor butter-side down. If a cat is dropped from a window or other high and towering place, it will land on its feet, But what if you attach a buttered piece of bread, butter-side up to a cat's back and toss them both out the window? Will the cat land on its feet? Or will the butter splat on the ground?And of course this goes on for a bit more...
A: Even if you are too lazy to do the experiment yourself you should be able to deduce the obvious result. The laws of butterology demand that the butter must hit the ground, and the equally strict laws of feline aerodynamics demand that the cat can not smash its furry back. If the combined construct were to land, nature would have no way to resolve this paradox. Therefore it simply does not fall.
And here's the wikipedia article on the matter.
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Sheesh, I always seem to get the blogs with the cat sadists...
On a more relevant note, several years ago one of my friends (non-cat owning) gave me an article published by a New York veterinary hospital that looked at injury rates suffered by cats falling from highrise apartment buildings. I hunted around a bit and found a summary on the Net but not the original article. The interesting thing was that survival rates actually improved with falls higher than seven floors.
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
Mon Aug 21, 08:46:05 PM CDT
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