Cats and Toast

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This question has been buggin' me for ever and eternity... So staticians state that toast will always land butter side down and that cats will always land on their feet. So what would happen if you tied buttered toast to a cats back and dropped it upside down from a hieght?

[naz_nomad]

The toast things a myth ... it all depends on the height the toast is dropped from.

A cat doesn't always land on it's feet.

Two small flaws in your experiment already, I think...

[fo3nix]

(I assume this is only half serious, but I'll answer it seriously anyway.)

The cat would land on its feet.

There is no statement that toast will land butter side down. It's simply what tends to happen when dropped from the height of the average kitchen worksurface. It rotates because one side is heavier (with the stuff on it), so it's more likely to fall that way.

[B00]

lol@ buggin you forever, you've pulled the question from a site!

[bookermel]

Look here!! http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Science/Questio n250704.html

[Llamatron]

Killjoy answer:

Toast is usually dropped by it being knocked off a table or a plate someone is carrying.
As the toast goes over edge first it's put into a slow spin.
Unfortunately the fall is never high enough for the toast to do a full 360 so only ever spins enough to land butter side down.

Cats land on their feet coz their clever like that.
I think the strength and mass of the cat would easily overcome that of a slice of toast.

So a dropped cat with a slice of toast on it's back would always land feet first. Probably with its claws out and gunning for the guy who stuck buttered toast to it.

[naz_nomad]

Can't don't always land on their feet ... ffs

[dzug]

This question has become seriously garbled since it was first posed in the 1940s. The theory of resistentialism as invented by Jean-Marie Ventre states that toast is likely to fall marmalade side down, and that the more expensive/ difficult to clean the carpet, the more likely this is.

Bringing cats and butter into it is a travesty. All the experiments were done with marmalade.

[RATTER15]

If you super glue a line of lead weights to the back of the cat and then hurl it from window, toast or no toast, marmalade or butter, its going to land on its back.

Problem Solved!!

[cuetip]

The forces of the cats feet and buttered toast would counteract against each other.

Thus resulting in the toast tied feline floating and spinning in the air, in a clockwise direction.

Though if the experiment were performed in the southern hemisphere the cat would spin anti clockwise.

[bricro]

If you drop a lead weight and a feather in a vacuum,which reaches the bottom first?

Answers on a plain PC!!

[parkesquay]

I think that you should add to this thread such things as:

1. Can broad beans be sewn in a narrow garden.
or
2. Does Red Cabbage come under the heading of 'Green Groceries'.

[dzug]

One has to assume that the cat is both intelligent and hungry.

It will therefore contrive to land on its back so that it will be able to lick the butter (or marmalade, for purists) from the carpet.