Toast and cats......

One for the deep thinkers out there......:cool:



FACT 1 /A slice of toast,when dropped,will usually land butter side down.

FACT 2 /A cat when dropped will usually land on it's feet.



MY QUESTION / What would happen if you strapped the toast butter side up to the cat's back,then dropped it?


CAT LOVERS PLEASE NOTE
This should not be taken in any way to indicate that I am anti-cat.I'm actually quite fond of them.But I am anti-toast.How can people be so cruel to a poor helpless slice of bread?;)

This is an old one about absolutes and since nothing is absolute, the cat will turn and lick the butter off before spinning back around to land on its feet. :)

Since the cat has more mass than the toast naturally the cat will land on its feet, then maybe struggles to get teh toast off its back & eat it :flash:

Using Newton's 26th law of random freak circumstances, the cat will land on its feet, whereupon the toast will become untied from the cat and proceed to land, butter side down. After this, the universe will implode upon itself, creating a vortex, known only as Phi. This vortex will then explode, causing a new universe to come into being.

The toast/cat will hover just inches above the ground, spinning rapidly. If you attach an electrical generator to the cat's tail, you can produce limitless amounts of free power. This is often called Zero-Point Energy.

;)

lmfao fritz and dx, wish i were creative enough to come up with an answer like that :D

I have plenty more where that came from! :D :) :cwn27: :( :mad: :eek:

My cat likes toast.

Originally posted by kbslacker
My cat likes toast.

Does its breath smell like cat food, too? ;)

I tend to side with the rationals with saying that the cat's mass is superiour to that of the toast allowing the cat to land first (most likely on its feet). Additionally, atleast in accordance to the behaviour of my cats, the cat will dislike anything being tied to it (assuming it allowed the toast to be tied to it in the first place), and will then proceed to attempt to remove the toast. Here, the toast will land on either side. This I say because just as a cat does not ALWAYS land on its feet when dropped from too low a position, the toast (depending upon the actual amount of butter applied to the one side) could conceivably land on either side. I say either side because of the factor of the cat's impatience at removing the toast from its back, the rope perhaps becoming entangled and turning the toast during removal, and even the fact that the distance that the toast would fall would be negligible. Additionally, the cat (if able to) would likely investigate the buttered side of the toast, and may possibly lick or even eat the toast!

There's my pair of pennies! :D

Originally posted by saturntangerine


Does its breath smell like cat food, too? ;)

I tend to side with the rationals with saying that the cat's mass is superiour to that of the toast allowing the cat to land first (most likely on its feet).


Just to be devil's advocate, physicists proved long ago that mass has absolutely nothing to do with the acceleration imparted by gravity to an object :smoker2:

Thanks guys,this post was a gimme.Just wanted to guage the philosophical capacity of the group,glad to see nobody offered a road test report:)

Dont try it....the devils come from the ground...
damn recurrance

Well damn...i tried this last night. That cat lands feet first and tries to eat the toast. Nothing really special.

No implosion of all existence and reality?!?!!?!?!? damn......im dissapointed......:(

The only thing that imploded was my expectations. I wanted to witness the creation of the infinite vortex, or at the very least perpetual motion, but just a damn cat eating toast.

Mass does not effect the rate at which things fall. Drop a bowling ball and a ping-pong ball from the same height, they will both hit the ground at the same time :)

Originally posted by texan


Just to be devil's advocate, physicists proved long ago that mass has absolutely nothing to do with the acceleration imparted by gravity to an object :smoker2:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same principle:cool:

Here I am thinking I'm going to read about having toast with cats.:D :silly2:

Originally posted by DVSNCYNIKL
Here I am thinking I'm going to read about having toast with cats.:D :silly2:

.....Welcome to Wonderland......

Well, the cat twisted itself in the air so its feet were down. So gravity really wasnt that much of a factor here.

Originally posted by VeilsideVR4
Mass does not effect the rate at which things fall. Drop a bowling ball and a ping-pong ball from the same height, they will both hit the ground at the same time :)

That works for terminal velocity, but for shorter falls like from 10 feet, the cat's weight will accelerate faster than that of a piece of toast.

Or so that's what I remember from 3 years ago...

terminal velocity, a friend and i were talking about that just yesterday!!!

ok, i know what it is, but, whats the exact speed where terminal velocity is reached, neither of us could remember.....

Originally posted by NismoDrifts
ok, i know what it is, but, whats the exact speed where terminal velocity is reached, neither of us could remember.....

*lol* Damned if I remember! :)

Originally posted by saturntangerine


That works for terminal velocity, but for shorter falls like from 10 feet, the cat's weight will accelerate faster than that of a piece of toast.

Or so that's what I remember from 3 years ago...


You've got it exactly backwards. The acceleration imparted to an object by the force of gravity is constant, regardless of the mass of the object. Terminal velocity is dependent upon resistance to motion though, and that is dependent upon the mass and shape of the object. A feather and a bowling ball have drastically different terminal velocities in anything other than a pure vacuum, but their rates of descent would be identical providing they were not falling through the medium of air or some other material. Terminal velocity is defined simply as the maximum rate of descent an object will reach when travling through the atmosphere under the constant attraction of gravity, which is entirely dependent upon said object's Cd and NOT upon it's mass.

Originally posted by NismoDrifts
ok, i know what it is, but, whats the exact speed where terminal velocity is reached, neither of us could remember.....

Terminal velocity is reached when an object's resistance to motion (aka rate of descent) exactly matches that of gravity's accelerative force. An equilibrium is reached here, just like the top speed of a car being based upon aerodynamic drag when it's not limited by gearing.

Originally posted by texan



You've got it exactly backwards. The acceleration imparted to an object by the force of gravity is constant, regardless of the mass of the object.

Even if I'm bassackwards, does it not mean that the cat and the toast (presuming the cat is on the bottom during this experiment) would fall at the same rate, but the cat (since it is able to make independant movements) would reach the ground first???

Heck, even if the cat and toast started out Horizontal, would not the cat's ability to right itself in mid-air allow it to still land first and on its feet??? This only because the toast has no capability of movement unless acted upon, and in this case, the cat would be adjusting for a feet-first landing, thus forcing the toast to the top...

Thats what i said! :D

But, what if you used Duct tape to affix the toast to the cat? Wouldn't the cat be more determined to remove the Duct tape, then lick the butter off the toast? He might land head first?

I think falling takes priority for a cat, but i am not sure. I used string, and the cat seemed more interested in falling on its feet than the attachment system.

yeah.....its kinda like if someone tied a steak to your back and threw you off a cliff.....ok ill shut up now....

Originally posted by 1989 DX R
I think falling takes priority for a cat, but i am not sure. I used string, and the cat seemed more interested in falling on its feet than the attachment system.


I'm getting deja-vu here............

my old civics terminal velocity was 93 mph.

Originally posted by ldelaysionl
my old civics terminal velocity was 93 mph.

Did it try and drink all it's gas before it hit the ground? Or was it more concerned with landing tires down??

i thought terminal velocity was when something couldnt physically go any faster......not because of engine pushing it.....because the objects mass and aerodynamics coz it to reach a speed where theres no longer air resistance and it just goes insanely fast............but i dunno, hard to explain, and youre probably write, coz my knowledge of terminal velocity is limited to skydiving falling type things

Originally posted by Tireburner


Did it try and drink all it's gas before it hit the ground? Or was it more concerned with landing tires down??



Tires down, definetly :rolleyes:

9.8 meters per second right? terminal velocity for a falling object?

sorry, haha read ya wrong

Originally posted by NismoDrifts
yeah.....its kinda like if someone tied a steak to your back and threw you off a cliff.....ok ill shut up now.... mmmmmmmmmmm steak

Originally posted by Judge
mmmmmmmmmmm steak

W3RD! :D

no you see you guys just haven't got it. You're close.

The cat and toast will end up spinning inches from the ground, creating a spinning Cat/Toast Grid AntiGravity Device.

Large Arrays of these Cat/Toast Devices would be useful in powering highspeed magnetic monorail trains for traversing Europe or North America.

I tried this experiment and there were two outcomes I found after numerous tests.

1. They will both land on their sides due to both of natures strange forces fighting each other

2. The string will break and they will both land as expected

oh yeah and now my cat hates me









kidding I wouldn't drop my cat like that without a homemade parachute

Originally posted by tazdev


kidding I wouldn't drop my cat like that without a homemade parachute [/B]

I was always told if you have nothing nice to say, then be quiet... so I'll keep the thoughts of detonation devices and feet to myself. :D :D

If I did anything bad to my cat he would kill me.

Besides my Little E is my bestest friend.:silly2:

As you can see in my avatar Little E is a terror (but I wuv him)