The Secret to Perpetual Motion?

[Fiend1]

I believe I have figured it out.

Cats always land on their feet, correct?
and toast always lands butter side down?

Therefore, I have deduced, that buttering a cats back, and dropping it from a great height, will confuse gravity.

Gravity will not be able to decide if the cat should land on it's feet or butter side down, therefore the cat will simply hover above the ground, spinning rapidly for all eternity.

If somebody finds a way to harness this energy, It could be the perfect power-source for an evil inventor to run his death ray, with which he may take over the world. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

 

[TickleTheater]

Yeah, I saw that when I was searching for funny quotes. I hope no one tries that at home for the cats sake. 😉

 

[Sadistictickler]

Ya know, it takes about 4 floors for a cat to twist it's body; so if ya toss a cat off the 7th floor it probably will survive, but when ya toss it off the 4th floor it most likely won't... Weird, isn't it?

 

[shortyhol]

Yeah actually thats very weird. I never knew that til now!!

 

[Fiend1]

Ya know, it takes about 4 floors for a cat to twist it's body; so if ya toss a cat off the 7th floor it probably will survive, but when ya toss it off the 4th floor it most likely won't... Weird, isn't it?

But surely those statistics would vary depending on the size of the cat in question?

Like, there's a cat who lives at the top of my road that, I swear, is trying to become a great Dane. It's Hooooooooge!!!

Surely one of that size would fall faster than an average size cat, and take longer to twist it's body? Hmmmmmmmm. I feel an experiment coming on.

Fetch me 2 newborn kittens, an anvil, and some rope, and meet me at the top of the closest really tall thing!

May the cat-plummeting commence 😀

 

[miglan]

jajaja

You guys really kill me!!!!😛

It's just relaxing to find this stuff...(or maybe I'm in a good mood 'cause I've figured out a financial way to marry my beloved girlfriend; things that make you go hmmmm....)

Mig

 

[maverick83]

But surely those statistics would vary depending on the size of the cat in question?


Surely one of that size would fall faster than an average size cat, and take longer to twist it's body? Hmmmmmmmm. I feel an experiment coming on.

If I may interject, just to be a smartass, while it may be true that the cat could take longer to turn itself around, it will not fall faster. In freefall, on Earth, acceleration is constant at about 9.8 m/s^2, regardless of an object's weight. This is, of course, without factoring in wind resistance, but you get the idea.

 

[His Divine Shadow]

I just have one question. Who does the tests to figure these things out!?

 

[shortyhol]

Thats a good question, I wonder the samething!😕

 

[Sadistictickler]

acceleration is constant at about 9.8 m/s^2

I've once read an article some years ago that for some kind of odd reason some objects don't fall as fast as they should had

 

[shortyhol]

huh!

Really? Wow, that is odd