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It could be for many reasons
*because your cat is stupid
*because your cat is drunk
*because your stupid and your cat is really a dog
the other option is that the aerodynamics mean that to start off with a cat will fall upside down. it then starts twisting it's spine round to land on it's feet. what you need to do is drop if from a greater height and it should sort itself out
*because your cat is stupid
*because your cat is drunk
*because your stupid and your cat is really a dog
the other option is that the aerodynamics mean that to start off with a cat will fall upside down. it then starts twisting it's spine round to land on it's feet. what you need to do is drop if from a greater height and it should sort itself out
Well, im convinced my cat isn't actually cat. When i say this im not lying, we've tested it many times, and also others have.
He's actually a human...:rolmao:
He will only answer to his name "Sydney" and if you tell him to get off your lap he will, even if yo don't raise your voice. He will follow you round the house, purring and if you tell him to go away, again without being agressive, he will.
I'll try and get a picture of him sleeping. Its the funniest thing ever. He sleeps on his back with all fours sticking up into the air, i've never seen an animal sleep like his.
He also doesn't know when to use his claws. He'll jump onto the couch, forget to put his claws out and slip off again.
When he's hungry he won't go to his bowl but the box of his food. Meowing at it.
When a visitor comes he'll make friends by putting his paws on their belly (he stands on a chair) and meows. If you ask him a question he always answers, usually with the same answer though.
He's actually a human...:rolmao:
He will only answer to his name "Sydney" and if you tell him to get off your lap he will, even if yo don't raise your voice. He will follow you round the house, purring and if you tell him to go away, again without being agressive, he will.
I'll try and get a picture of him sleeping. Its the funniest thing ever. He sleeps on his back with all fours sticking up into the air, i've never seen an animal sleep like his.
He also doesn't know when to use his claws. He'll jump onto the couch, forget to put his claws out and slip off again.
When he's hungry he won't go to his bowl but the box of his food. Meowing at it.
When a visitor comes he'll make friends by putting his paws on their belly (he stands on a chair) and meows. If you ask him a question he always answers, usually with the same answer though.
(Warning- jargon)
I think there's another option, which is called something like axial stability. It means that when you throw something to spin around a particular axis then if it only spins around that axis, it is axially stable, however if it also spins around another axis, despite your best efforts, it is not axially stable with that particular axis.
Books and hairbrushes are good for demonstrating this, they are axially stable with two axes and not with one. I think.
So either Jake's cat is not axially stable around that particular axis, or you're just not dropping him correctly.
I'll get me coat...
I think there's another option, which is called something like axial stability. It means that when you throw something to spin around a particular axis then if it only spins around that axis, it is axially stable, however if it also spins around another axis, despite your best efforts, it is not axially stable with that particular axis.
Books and hairbrushes are good for demonstrating this, they are axially stable with two axes and not with one. I think.
So either Jake's cat is not axially stable around that particular axis, or you're just not dropping him correctly.
I'll get me coat...
right now we've had the biology and physics of cats can we mve on to toast?
Toast is far more stable butter side down. It's like dropping a cone, one side creates lots mor tobulance as it falls then the other way. Add this to the theory that the axel stablitity causes the toast to fall through 180degrees from a standard hieght workingf surface and it explains why toast does this.
To creat a flying machine all you have to do is attach a cat to a slice of toast with butter. (buttered side of toast attaches to cats feet)
This means that it's impossible for both the toast to land butter side down and the cat to fall on it's feet. The affect is that it will hover just above the ground
Toast is far more stable butter side down. It's like dropping a cone, one side creates lots mor tobulance as it falls then the other way. Add this to the theory that the axel stablitity causes the toast to fall through 180degrees from a standard hieght workingf surface and it explains why toast does this.
To creat a flying machine all you have to do is attach a cat to a slice of toast with butter. (buttered side of toast attaches to cats feet)
This means that it's impossible for both the toast to land butter side down and the cat to fall on it's feet. The affect is that it will hover just above the ground
As a member of the RSPCA, I have to say how totally nauseating we find this thread and the potential suffering cats may suffer as a result.
As soon as our swat team get thier kevlar gear and helmets on over their usual paramilitary uniforms, we will be working in conjunction with the Police and Security Services to access your addresses and will, with our new powers (which as usual, we will overstate, along with our knowledge of animal welfare) be kicking in your doors in full view of TV cameras, to humiliate you in public.
Any cats you have will, once blinded by the camera lights, be taken away in animal friendly, lightless, cardboard boxes and transported in the unheated backs of our purposely designed vehicles to our local extermination..sorry, rescue, centre.
Furthermore, assisted by Rolf Harris, we are now to undertake a study into the aerodynamic and aerobatic properties of cats, using wind tunnels and bungee ropes whilst the animals are monitored using cannulas and monitoring electrodes inserted into their cerebral cortexes and adrenal glands to ensure that they do not suffer unduly.
Despite our intervention over this matter, we find the environmentally conscious nature of this group refreshing and generally in keeping with our outlook. In particular the "edged tools" subforum and the threads on skinning and trapping are required reading for our trainees.
As a result, we are planning to liaise with Tony to see if we are able to offer discounts on BCUK "Davy Crockett" type fur hats.
Assuring you of our unwanted intrusion at all times,
etc etc
As soon as our swat team get thier kevlar gear and helmets on over their usual paramilitary uniforms, we will be working in conjunction with the Police and Security Services to access your addresses and will, with our new powers (which as usual, we will overstate, along with our knowledge of animal welfare) be kicking in your doors in full view of TV cameras, to humiliate you in public.
Any cats you have will, once blinded by the camera lights, be taken away in animal friendly, lightless, cardboard boxes and transported in the unheated backs of our purposely designed vehicles to our local extermination..sorry, rescue, centre.
Furthermore, assisted by Rolf Harris, we are now to undertake a study into the aerodynamic and aerobatic properties of cats, using wind tunnels and bungee ropes whilst the animals are monitored using cannulas and monitoring electrodes inserted into their cerebral cortexes and adrenal glands to ensure that they do not suffer unduly.
Despite our intervention over this matter, we find the environmentally conscious nature of this group refreshing and generally in keeping with our outlook. In particular the "edged tools" subforum and the threads on skinning and trapping are required reading for our trainees.
As a result, we are planning to liaise with Tony to see if we are able to offer discounts on BCUK "Davy Crockett" type fur hats.
Assuring you of our unwanted intrusion at all times,
etc etc
Actually contrary to popular belief, toast is not more stable butter-side-down. The reason it usually lands butter-side-down after you have dropped it is because it only has time to spin through 180degrees (or pi radians) from the height at which it was dropped. If you wished to stop your toast landing butter-side-down then you should only drop it from the height of below 3' or above ... damn I've forgotten the correct height. Something like 7' anyway. The problem therefore does not lie with the toast, but with the height of humans.
The alternative is to make sure you drop it by flinging it sideways.
The problem therefore does not lie with the toast, but with the height of humans.The alternative is to make sure you drop it by flinging it sideways.
I'm sure I've seen video evedance of butterd toast in a wind tunnel
IIRC it's 8feet for a full rotation
IIRC it's 8feet for a full rotation
Wow, although I saw that lot on the box, they didn't have toast in a wind tunnel. I'm jealous now...
Tantalus said:
the turn of the cleaners who are payed to do so
the cleaners that stole my army mess tins
Andy, my cats now dead. I tried to attach the buttered toast to his feet which was fine, he was a pretty dosile cat and any attention he got he enjoyed. As your idea seemed pretty infallable i thought that i'd fling him from my roof. Well, he didnt hover, he landed on his head and died after i payed £3,400 in vets bills.
So i hope you feel guilty, and if you come up with any other scientific theories in the future, please buy a cat and test it on yours before preaching your theory to the rest of us...purr old sydney. (sorry, that was terrible)
So i hope you feel guilty, and if you come up with any other scientific theories in the future, please buy a cat and test it on yours before preaching your theory to the rest of us...purr old sydney. (sorry, that was terrible)
Jake -it doesn't work if your cat is a human in a cat skin.
Maybe it was a monster trying to eat the mice
Maybe it was a monster trying to eat the mice
:madaxe:
Emma said:Actually contrary to popular belief, toast is not more stable butter-side-down. The reason it usually lands butter-side-down after you have dropped it is because it only has time to spin through 180degrees (or pi radians) from the height at which it was dropped. If you wished to stop your toast landing butter-side-down then you should only drop it from the height of below 3' or above ... damn I've forgotten the correct height. Something like 7' anyway.
The alternative is to make sure you drop it by flinging it sideways.
Just to be a smartarse and out-science you, over a long drop the toast is likely to be butter side down. The shape is extremely unstable (has a drag coefficient of 1.17 (!) and thus is likely to slip all over the place. Like a piece of paper - same basic shape. However, what the toast has is a varying skin friction drag - the butter side is much smoother than the others, and so the toast is most stable with the airflow past the smoothest side, ie most stable with smooth side downwards. Skin friction actually has a surprisingly great effect on aerodynamics. We were taught this in engineering college - lecturers with too much time on their hands :roll:
Wow! I'd never thought about the aerodynamics!! Thanks for that!
Now you've got me wondering about the possibility of baking a bread glider...
Now you've got me wondering about the possibility of baking a bread glider...
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