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Instar · #51 December 15th, 2002, 10:03 PM

voila!

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Ruatha · #52 December 15th, 2002, 11:41 PM

"When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat. The two will hover, spinning inches above the ground. With a giant buttered cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago."

What do you call that device, and is the cat happy? Will the butter go bad, will it smell? Will it be a "Smelly Cat"(TM)?

Kamog · #53 December 16th, 2002, 03:34 AM

That's an interesting sig!

...um, one time I dropped my toast and it landed with the butter side facing UP! It must have been at a moment of special planetary alignment or something.

It will probably never happen again...

(It's one of those "maybe it will happen once in your lifetime if you're extremely lucky" type of events.)

Ragnarok · #54 December 16th, 2002, 04:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kamog:
That's an interesting sig!

...um, one time I dropped my toast and it landed with the butter side facing UP! It must have been at a moment of special planetary alignment or something.

It will probably never happen again... (It's one of those "maybe it will happen once in your lifetime if you're extremely lucky" type of events.)

Ok, I am going to run a test to see how often this works. 20 loaves of bread here I come....

Instar · #55 December 16th, 2002, 06:50 AM

I saw it on coolsig, and I loved it
Its a violation of thermodynamics... but it would WORK!
I will use it to power my spaceship

Ruatha · #56 December 16th, 2002, 09:49 AM

Butter study

Earlier this year over a thousand schoolchildren across Britain took part in a mass experiment to get to the bottom of one of the most vexing questions of our time: is it true that tumbling toast tends to land butter-side down? The experiment was the world’s biggest-ever investigation of Murphy’s Law – that "if something can go wrong, it will." Over 20,000 tumbles of toast later, the truth was finally revealed. When it slides off a plate, toast really does land butter-side down more often than not: 62% of the time, to be precise.

The experiment had finally got to the bottom of what many scientists have dismissed as a silly urban myth, yet countless breakfast-eaters insist is an irksome reality. Indeed, the study went further, showing that the cause of the trouble wasn’t the weight of the butter or the aerodynamics of the toast, but simply the fact that toast tumbling from table-height doesn’t spin fast enough to bring the buttered side on top again before the toast hits the floor.

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Gryphin · #57 December 16th, 2002, 01:48 PM

Ruatha, thanks. that tid bit, (or bit tid) will give me conversational material for all of the seaasonal parties now through new years.
Good one.

Ragnarok · #58 December 16th, 2002, 06:56 PM

Yeah, thanks Ruatha. (You are all knowing arn't you?

)

But that showed 62% landed butter side down. My test showed 63%. So I wasn't too far behind.

(Considering I didn't do no test.)

Desdinova · #59 December 17th, 2002, 03:07 AM

interesting article. i still cant believe someone actually did a test like this though. lol

DarkHorse · #60 December 17th, 2002, 05:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kamog:
That's an interesting sig!

...um, one time I dropped my toast and it landed with the butter side facing UP! It must have been at a moment of special planetary alignment or something.

It will probably never happen again... (It's one of those "maybe it will happen once in your lifetime if you're extremely lucky" type of events.)

Are you in the southern hemisphere by any chance? Perhaps the coriolis effect causes toast to spin in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere, thus altering the fundamental physics of the buttered toast phenomenon.