Question Given that buttered toast always falls butter side down....

[Wazzerphuk]

... and taking into consideration that cats always land feet side down, I have a question:

If you were to strap buttered toast butter side up to the back of the cat and then dropped it from a height, what would happen?

 

[chipper]

we would have splattered cat on toast for tea

 

[mooSe_]

Depends how high you drop them from.
Also, if they were to spin around endlessly in the air then you have just solved the worlds renewable energy problems, all we need is a way to harness this cat/bread power and transform it into electrical energy.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Depends how high you drop them from.
Also, if they were to spin around endlessly in the air then you have just solved the worlds renewable energy problems, all we need is a way to harness this cat/bread power and transform it into electrical energy.

I think we'd need a hell of a lot of cats to power the Earth. It is however well worth investing the power yield that can be obtained in this process though.

 

[TdC]

Spoiler

toast falls on the butter side 50% of the time. fact.

 

[JingleBells]

Cat and the buttered toast

 

[chipper]

who cares as long as the cat dies

 

[Gil]

who cares as long as the cat dies

Schrödinger, theoretically, but he's never likes to check.

 

[Fweddy]

If the cat lands on its feet the toast does not land, it's safely supported one cat's height about the ground. One suspects however that if the cat subsequently tried to roll over it would be instantaneously catapulted straight upwards a substantial distance.

Personally I'd rather strap a buttered piece of toast to each paw to create a hover cat.

 

[chipper]

Schrödinger, theoretically, but he's never likes to check.

hehe

 

[RandomBastard]

Boring Bastard Answer:
The cat lands on its feet and then hisses at you for dropping it, and for strapping toast to it. It will then probably attempt to eat the toast.

Stupid old (glen) answer:
The cat and the toast spins above the ground, utilising many such spinning toast/cat combinations allows the creation of a high speed, low cost, monorail system.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Disregarding this being OLD AS F*CK of a topic *ahehem*

You'd need one helluva toast as the weight of the cat is much higher then a single piece of bread.

You'd have to have a toast large enough to counter the cats muscle strength(which turns it around) exactly.

Also mythbusters proved that buttered side always hitting the floor is flawed.

 

[kirennia]

Part related but interesting none-the-less; did you know that if you were to drop an average weighted household cat (before anyone mentions some overweight beast) out of a window of an apartment block, they'd be more likely to be injured if you dropped them from between the 2nd and 5th floor then if you did higher up?

When cats reach terminal velocity, skin flaps underneath their armpits stretch out and essentially act as wings for reducing their speed and landing safely!


Using that, I'd say the cat would generally fall on its feet a lot more often then the buttered toast would even touch the ground, even if the myth were true...

 

[mycenae]

thankyou for the cat chicken tikka monorail systen link, I've been trying to find that for ages....I read it once a while ago and thought it was brilliant, and haven;t been able to find it since!

 

[chipper]

what if ya tied its legs together tho?

 

[Overdriven]

.. We would have the oldest question known to man posted on the internet again. (Great debate to have IRL by the way)

 

[Tom]

As you dropped the cat it would dig its claws into your face, ripping your skin off, and making a safe descent down your body until landing, meanwhile you're dying of blood loss.

 

[Billargh]

Where's the .gif of the cat with toast on its back endlessly spinning in mid air when you need it?

Oh, here it is

Yeah, that's what would happen.

 

[Ctuchik]

Also mythbusters proved that buttered side always hitting the floor is flawed.

but much of what THEY do gets flawed aswell because of the need to make "good TV".

 

[Zebolt]

toast falls on the butter side 50% of the time. fact.

Tbh just cuz' the chance of it falling on one side is 50% doesn't mean it actually falls on one side 50% of the time

 

[TdC]

you're saying you're willing to kill a million cats before you get it right eh? cat hater!

 

[chipper]

you're saying you're willing to kill a million cats before you get it right eh? cat hater!

million cats in the name of science? yup id do it no problem vile creatures

 

[TdC]

bahs! kittens of the world, defy the unbeliever!

 

[sayward]

Round here the seagulls would eat them both before they hit the floor.

 

[friky]

Spoiler

toast falls on the butter side 50% of the time. fact.

not true, butterd side is heaver so depending how much butter it will falls that side greater then 50% of the time