You know how they say cats always land on their feet?
And then there's that Murphy's sub-law which says that a piece of buttered toast that falls will always land buttered side down?
So if I tie a buttered toast buttered side up to the back of your cat and drop both, which law will triumph?
One of them replied with:
"The buttered toast always lands face down because it's very flat, therefore it cannot undergo more than half a revolution when falling off from a height of anything less than (I think) approx. 10 meters.
tying a cat onto it will just make the cat very greasy and your toast very catty."
[obviously not the cat owner.]
and the other ignored me. [cat owner. 'nuff said.]
Then the other day I got a follow-up reply from one (i'm beginning to think not so long-suffering and rather weird) of them:
"Please find attached, one year on, the definite answer to amy's question: What happens when you stick a piece of toast on a cat and chuck them off a table?"
(the cat and toast are actually revolving but i guess a moving .gif is too advanced for blogger. ask me to email it to you if you really want to see it in action.)
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ames ure weird!! and i miss u!sniffles.
if the buttered side of the toast is on the cat, then it is no longer just a plain buttered toast. It would now become a "sort of" pizza/sandwich(without being sandwiched)/snack. Which means both theories do not work anymore. =)
Nah the theories would still work. Assuming that the power of each theory is equal, and neither has greater landing force than the other, what would happen is that the spinning would occur as each side tries to land downwards. While either the cat or the toast is facing down, there is no gravitational effect as it's equal forces pulling at each other...but when both are facing the side during the spin, they will fall slightly as gravity acts to pull them down before they are stationary again when one side faces down....in effect what you will see is a spinning propeller like thing gently floating down to the ground...and as they only fall when they're on their side, the side will hit the ground, thereby proving both theories to be equal and negating each other
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