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We all know that a cat will always land on its feet,whichever way up it is when it's falling.And we also know that freshly buttered toast will always land butter-side down if dropped.So what happens if you butter the back of a cat and drop it?

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Sunday, 29 December 2002 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

man, i thought this was really gonna be a thread about physics :(

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 29 December 2002 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

it's not too late geeta

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 29 December 2002 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

alas, i know more about cats than string theory. but not so much about butter...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 29 December 2002 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

dunno about buttering a cats back, but if you butter its feet when you move house it wont stray.

― donna (donna), Sunday, 29 December 2002 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd hate to be the one trying to put bread on a cats back.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 29 December 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

He didn't mention bread. Presumably he intends to toast the cat, in which case it will be unable to right itself, being dead.

― thom west (thom w), Sunday, 29 December 2002 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Alan Moore already did this. The cat will float in the air, turning over and over, apparently.

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Sunday, 29 December 2002 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I would never toast a cat.That would be cruel.My cat doesn't fit in the toaster,anyway.It did venture into the tumble dryer once,but I think that is something most cats do at least once in their nine lives.

I had a radioactive cat,it had eighteen half-lives.

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Sunday, 29 December 2002 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

An interesting list of unsolved physics problems that don't require multi-billion dollar equipment to study:

http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/30-open-questions-in-physics-and-astronomy/

― o. nate, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:07 (thirteen years ago)

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