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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
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Drews recent post about the earth speeding up, etc. reminded me of the so-called "cat/toast" paradox that is the subject of much heated discussion amongst theoretical physicists and other pointy headed scientist types. If you are not familiar, it goes like this: Fact #1:We all know that if you drop a cat, it ALWAYS lands on its feet. FAct #2:We all also know that if you drop a piece of buttered toast, it ALWAYS lands butter side down. Therefore, if one was to securely fasten a piece of buttered toast to a cats feet, with his feet to the non-butter side, and then you drop said cat/toast unit from some distance above the floor, neither the buttered side of the toast, nor the cats back will hit the floor. A simple Einstein-type thought experiment will show that the as the butter side of the toast approaches the floor, it will be repelled in keeping fact #2. This will flip the cat/toast unit over, thus exposing the cats back to the floor. As the cats back cannot hit the floor to preserve fact #1, it will again flip over, again exposing the buttered side of the toast to the floor. And the cycle repeats endlessly, the cat/toast unit spinning while hovering in place just above the floor. It has been proposed that this rotational energy could be harnessed to a degree sufficent to end our need to import forign oil. I have done some limited testing on this myself. I constructed a cat/toast unit, and hoping to maximixe the captured energy, dropped it from my office window, on the 11th floor. Unfortunatly it did not behave according to the current theories, though I think that may be due to the fact that the toast was not dark enough. I am awaiting a small shipment of cats (don't worry these are "out of date code" cats from the local chineese restuarant) to continue testing. Of course no experiment is ever truly a failure, as the data gathered has led to a completly different device. I cannot discuss too many details as the patents are still pending, but if you contact the patent office, you can find the preliminary patent info under the heading "Organic feline inertial ballistic impact device." |
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| thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 10:35 AM | |
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