If toast always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet, what would happen if you attached a piece of toast to a cat and dropped it? Would it kepp spinning in mid air?
Side question: What would you attatch the toast with?
Answers:
Toast has a high probability of landing butter-side down because the buttered side will be heavier. The rotational force created by the relative difference in weight of the two sides is enough to cause the toast to rotate. I strongly doubt that this force is enough to counter the rotational force generated by the cat's self-righting motion. Unless the way in which the toast has been attached to the cat prevents it from self-righting, I would expect the cat to land on its feet. And then miaow loudly at the b@stard who strapped toast to its back and dropped it. Neither of the rotational forces would be strong enough to counter the gravitational force pulling cat, toast, butter and jam (or marmalade) to the ground.
Side answer: I wouldn't attach toast to a cat.
ill go away and think and come back to you
it would hover above the ground spinning. it would be perpetual motion. if only we could store that energy, it would solve global warming.
this is SO old
Just pondering on that one for a while - I think that might take a little bit of algebra, equations and theory of relativity knowledge.
only if the cat was standing on the butter side
fantastic question, let me know how it turnes out, i've only got a dog or i'd try it myself, just ask the cat nicely it might hold the toast.
The cat would eat the toast thus rendering your experiment usless. but with a baguette..
Wouldn't It Be Easier To Just Butter The Cat And See What Happens? Otherwise I'd Attach The Toast With String.Or Velcro! Lol x
you think too much........ lol!
well this is busted already. Mythbusters did the buttered toast myth and it was busted so we don't need to take it any further.
rope, drop the cat off a cliff and you'll have a dead cat and crumbled toast.
You fool, cats die and break their bones from falling many times and to think a cat always lands on their feet is nonsense, don't torchure your cat! it loves you.
Ever tried putting a harness on a cat ?
I would like to see the video of you actually tying a piece of toast to a cat !
The rules of cat aerodynamics outgun any other rules - the cat will land on its feet - probably via any exposed skin you happen to have and then hurtle through your house spreading butter on any expensive items it comes across.
Cats are aliens and no Earth based rule can apply to them.
Kevlar is not catproof
I am in a strange mood today
Don't do it! Actually doing this experiment would cause the universe to collapse. Einstein warned FDR on this!
I don't know, but I do know that my cat loves eating crunchy toast !
Thats quite funny, the cat would land first being the heaviest!
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