Weightless Cats - I Can Has Gravity?

[Ian David]

Weightless Cats - I Can Has Gravity?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9XtK6R1QAk

[dipsydoodle]

1. Similar applies in this old chestnut

When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands buttered side down. Therefore, if a slice of toast is strapped to a cat's back, buttered side up, and the animal is then dropped, the two opposing forces will cause it to hover, spinning inches above the ground.

If enough toast-laden felines were used, they could form the basis of a high-speed monorail system.

In the buttered toast case, it's the butter that causes it to land buttered side down - it doesn't have to be toast, the theory works equally well with Jacob's crackers. So to save money you just miss out the toast - and butter the cats.

Also, should there be an imbalance between the effects of cat and butter, there are other substances that have a stronger affinity for carpet.

http://www.physics.leeds.ac.uk/for-schools/fun-physics/perpetual-motion/

[thereismore]

2. An idiotic commentary. Of course cats don't orient themselves to gravity

when there is no gravity.

[goodboy]

3. betcha those guys were scratched the fuck out of! LOL! (nt)

[sakabatou]

4. Hehehe

[krispos42]

5. Scared kittehs on the vomit comet

I'm sure that ended well.


On the other hand, watching cats bounce around like beachballs was kinda fun. My cat would look like dandelion fluff with a tail.

:-)

[TheMadMonk]

6. OK apart from litter tray issues, this is something we actually need...

...to do for more than a handful of seconds.

Weaned kittens through to young adult cats should take a short space holiday for cheezeburgaz and science. To see if it is possible for us to have companion animals in space.

If any critter can adapt to zero-G AND lurve it, is almost certainly going to be kittehs.

[hunter]

9. Flying cats... no thank you.

Ever had a cat go ballistic and tear around the place with it's claws gripping the carpet, furniture, and drapes?

That's almost flying. Now I'm imagining a cat like that weightless.

:wow:

[Terry in Austin]

7. Oh noes! A secret den of cat-juggling! -nt

[Phoonzang]

8. I know what I'm doing with my cat this weekend.

That'll her to knock my glass off the counter.

"Don't worry kitty it's all for science *giggle*"

[Rochester]

10. Floating Cuteness!