Re: [lace-chat] Re: Lives of the cat
All I can remember is that a cat always falls on 4 legs, ie lands safely. In extensio, that would mean that a cat never dies at all g and a piece of buttered bread always lands butter side down. So if you strap a piece of bread, buttered side up, on a cat's back, and drop the cat from a height, then both the cat's feet and the buttered side of the bread will want to land first and hey presto, perpetual motion! Or maybe they disappear into some alternative universe where you can have down be in two directions at once... I guess it could happen in our universe too, if you had two planets colliding or something. Well then, if we just attach a tracking device to the cat, we have a new method of detecting colliding planets and other strange things! Weronika To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Lives of the cat
On Jun 4, 2004, at 2:56, W N Lafferty wrote: All I can remember is that a cat always falls on 4 legs, ie lands safely. In extensio, that would mean that a cat never dies at all g and a piece of buttered bread always lands butter side down. So if you strap a piece of bread, buttered side up, on a cat's back, and drop the cat from a height, then both the cat's feet and the buttered side of the bread will want to land first and hey presto, perpetual motion! I think I'll spend the rest of the evening meditating... Are you a genius? Am I a nut, because I find the idea most amusing? Flip, flop, flip, flop... How big would the bread piece need to be to balance the cat and keep the flip-flopping going? Would it be a matter of weight, or of surface? And, how soon after being dropped (from what height?) would the flip-flop click in? Weronika, perhaps some of your buddies at CalTech might want to do an in-depth study of the physics (and the metaphysics) of the problem. Especially those in search of a meaty subject for a thesis... I'm also forwarding this message to all the sci people I know; this is beyond *my* two brain cells, but... --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Lives of the cat
Tamara, Don't forget that Noelene is down here south of the Equator ... and we know strange things happen here, like the bathwater going down the plug hole in the opposite direction.So, whilst you're meditating, consider whether the same would apply to the flip, flop of the cat/buttered breadwould the cat/bread sandwich in the northern hemisphere go flop, flip instead of the other way round, and would it have any effect on perpetual motion or not!!? (Extremely big grin!!) Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Jun 4, 2004, at 2:56, W N Lafferty wrote: So if you strap a piece of bread, buttered side up, on a cat's back, and drop the cat from a height, then both the cat's feet and the buttered side of the bread will want to land first and hey presto, perpetual motion! I think I'll spend the rest of the evening meditating... Are you a genius? Am I a nut, because I find the idea most amusing? Flip, flop, flip, flop... How big would the bread piece need to be to balance the cat and keep the flip-flopping going? Would it be a matter of weight, or of surface? And, how soon after being dropped (from what height?) would the flip-flop click in? Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
