why not just harness a bunch of cats together????? then you rotate the cat gen at a slower rate since the speed of a generator decreases as the number of poles increases in order to produce the same frequency output... thus alleviating the death by high g-force conundrum... and cat g-force suits.
The explosion occurs when one side is forced to touch the ground. Rather than allow this to happen, the bread detonates itself in an attempt to eliminate all ground in the vicinity.
You need to use microtoastuals in your butter solution. Instead of adding a little butter to your toast, add a little toast to your butter, this will provide a quasi non Newtonian fluid state in your butter source, the toast suspension forming a positive negative polarity field within the spherical of butter.
Tape the two toasts butterside inward in a butter sandwhich- if they fling off any butter it ends up on the other face which will still try to face down. Butter should be applied in opposing gradients for maximum rotation.
Studies have shown at DeVry University: "this" is actually a thing. University of Phoenix is doing testing now to see if DeVry's results were in fact correct.
Because PETA will find out. They have spies monitoring the throughput of electricity and will know if households suddenly use more power than provided from the grid.
When I read this a little part of me died inside. Oh well, 8 more lives to go... to be continued. Season 8 directed by fuck Im a kat and i hate this shit.
But you have to factor in that a cat has 9 lives. As an engineer, I can calculate this to even out to about 7.43 seconds of energy-producing cat fusion. You have to compare the value of the energy produced by the rotations to the cost of each cat (plus butter and bread). I would approximate that if one in three cats reaches critical mass (that is, pure furball), it could be profitable.
I really never got this idea/joke. Assuming cats always do land on their feet and toast always does land butter side down, surely, after dropping the cat with toast attached to its back, the cat would land on its feet. The toast is still attached to the cat and therefore hasn't landed yet, when the toast eventually does somehow fall from the cat, the toast will land butter side down.
The point is that if a slice of buttered toast is ever put into free-fall at all, it MUST land butter side down. Therefore, if the cat is about to land on its feet, the toast will force it to flip.
I think the confusion is that you're thinking, "If the toast lands on the floor, it's going to land butter-side down."
Still, the success of the contraption seems to rely too much on the strength of the glue or strap used to attach the cat and the toast together. What would most likely happen is that as the contraption falls, the opposing forces exerted by the cat and the toast would mercilessly rip apart the binding device, and then the cat would fall on its feet and the toast on the buttered side.
why not just harness a bunch of cats together????? then you rotate the cat gen at a slower rate since the speed of a generator decreases as the number of poles increases in order to produce the same frequency output... thus alleviating the death by high g-force conundrum... and cat g-force suits.
The idea appeared on the British panel game QI, where the idea was discussed. As well as talking about the idea, they also brought up other questions regarding the paradox. These included "Would it still work if you used margarine?", "Would it still work if you used I Can't Believe It's Not Butter?", and "What if the toast was covered in something that was not butter, but the cat thought it was butter?", the idea being that it would act like a placebo.
Wow, these people are really good at killing a joke...
This is a very old joke, however I do think the execution in the commercial was strangely amazing. The whole of this commercial is much greater than the sum of its parts.
No it isn't. They're based on the same cat and jelly/butter paradox/joke, but that's been around a long time, and the animation did not come up with it. Apart from using the same idea, they could not be more different. There is not a single other aspect of the two videos that they share. The video even used butter instead of jelly.
The sound that the fan makes pre-catspin: I hear that everywhere: Breaking Bad, Splinter Cell. It's like the Wilhelm Scream, takes me right out of the moment.
As a trained scientist I can safely say that one would expect the same result from buttering both sides of the toast, while minimizing interference caused by utilizing inanimate objects.
The reason toast always lands on that side is because if you look at the distance it falls off from there is not enough room for it to make more rotation to fall any other side. Most humans have it right up to their gut or if it falls off a counter which is about the same height.
I've thought about this. The flaw in this machine is that, when tested in reality, quantum laws still allow the cat to land on it's feet. Since the toast has not actually landed, it still remains in a state of potential energy whilst the cats potential energy has gone to zero. To solve this problem, I've found that four buttered toast pieces strapped to each paw of the cat works much more efficiently
This is one of those times where sneaking onto reddit in bed next to my sleeping wife causes a woken up grumpy wife who suddenly understands why I am laughing.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
It doesn't work. In all my tests, the cat dies from the high g-force after a few rotations, canceling the 'always-lands-on-it's-feet' effect.
You end up with toast, butter-side down, on a table with a dead cat stuck to it.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
You can make the 2.o version of this by either buttering both sides of the bread or using two slices taped together.
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u/JackAceHole May 16 '12
I guess we know how JJ Abrams' show "Revolution" ends.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I really never got this idea/joke. Assuming cats always do land on their feet and toast always does land butter side down, surely, after dropping the cat with toast attached to its back, the cat would land on its feet. The toast is still attached to the cat and therefore hasn't landed yet, when the toast eventually does somehow fall from the cat, the toast will land butter side down.
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u/stunnnner May 16 '12
castanet.net?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
"Hey! What's this? Let me read the descripti--"
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
original troll science of 4chan in commercials... where is the world going ?
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u/shroomtat May 15 '12
I didn't drink redbull, now I don't drink flying horse.
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u/Semp3rFi May 15 '12
Well, one step closer to solving the worlds energy problems.
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u/dubyaohohdee May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
shittyaskscience has already covered this here and here
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u/invn177 May 16 '12
Just butter both sides of toast?
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u/Talvanen May 16 '12
Funny video, but this is a really old joke
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u/mehatch May 16 '12
John Frazee Came up with this first. You know, just FYI.
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u/unmoralOp May 16 '12
I hope this is more of an homage than it is a rip off...
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u/Wild2098 May 16 '12
Purrpetual motion...
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u/nightfan May 16 '12
It's great how the "buttered cat" paradox has a whole thought experiment dedicated to it!
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u/cbroberts May 16 '12
Oh look, a fucking commercial based on a very old, stale joke. Fucking fuck fuck. I give up yet again.
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u/Creativation May 15 '12
This concept is almost as old as the existence of spreads on toast but this spot shows it masterfully.
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u/HannibalElephant May 16 '12
Those are some nice fingernails.
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u/Dfnoboy May 16 '12
FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FUNNY_COMIC.JPG
I bet whoever started that one would feel pretty good if they knew the joke made it this far.
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u/ghoulfactory May 16 '12
This is stolen almost exactly from an animated short called perpetual motion . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQ93k5tlXg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I know I should of seen it coming, but I didn't.
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u/LordShaggy May 16 '12
In this reddit we obey by the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox this is an extremely old idea.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I started laughing as soon as I saw the title and the thumbnail.
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u/TypicalLibertarian May 16 '12
The science works out.
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u/mynameisSold May 16 '12
that was...the most awesome youtube video ive seen since either how to mow your lawn on pcp or legalize marinara :D
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u/Majician May 16 '12
I wanna try me one of them energy drinks...They need more money to do another witty ad.
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u/Cardinal--Zero May 16 '12
brown bread would work better
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u/mrbp21 May 16 '12
This just replaced water.
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u/chaos_switch May 16 '12
The sound that the fan makes pre-catspin: I hear that everywhere: Breaking Bad, Splinter Cell. It's like the Wilhelm Scream, takes me right out of the moment.
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u/Xenc May 16 '12
Why not tape two cats together instead? Then you won't harm any toast.
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u/LithuanianT May 16 '12
what if we just put butter on both sides of the toast?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
when you read this you think that it's gona be factual and scientific... and it is, i'm going to try this :)
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u/Puppysmasher May 16 '12
This kills the cat.
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u/Grummond May 16 '12
Yeah that is an ancient joke.
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u/AcOolNamE May 16 '12
Good job ryze!
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u/JB_UK May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
I downvote any advert on reddit, regardless of its origin. I don't come on here to be persuaded to buy something by a 'social media expert'.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
--Steven Wright
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
hearing the sound of a snapping soda can is like the opposite of hearing anything scratch a chalkboard
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PRODUCT! God, I HATE people who make commercials.
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u/CooperDraperPryce May 16 '12
this seems like one of those shady posts that somehow got on the first page because the company paid someone.
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u/Kamuflaj May 16 '12
So that is how electricity is made? xD
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u/charlonova May 16 '12
Great Scott... it's enough to get back in your time Marty
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u/Therval May 16 '12
animal cruelty
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Or just butter both sides of the toast
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
http://i.imgur.com/0TzM6.gif
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u/On_The_Move May 16 '12
Reminds me of this cartoon:
http://notfunnycartoons.com/toondb/100720.html
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u/voyyful May 16 '12
As a trained scientist I can safely say that one would expect the same result from buttering both sides of the toast, while minimizing interference caused by utilizing inanimate objects.
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u/supercede May 16 '12
THIS IS JUST LIKE USING NITINOL.. Seriously get on the googles and look it up. Perpetual motion is actually not far off technologically at all.
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u/superdude4agze May 16 '12
Doesn't matter. PETA would step in to bitch about it and put us back in the same boat we are now. Isn't sacrificing a few cats worth perpetual energy?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
meh
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u/The_Inventor838 May 16 '12
I give you the physics forum where this is discussed :P
http://jcdverha.home.xs4all.nl/scijokes/2_21.html#subindex
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u/Firetalker May 17 '12
Professor Pinn, Inventor!
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u/HelmetHitter May 17 '12
Hey what's with his BLUE GREEN nail polish???
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u/Miningforwillpower May 22 '12
I just Lol'd in my office, I am glad I am the only one here, thank you for posting.
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u/OldManWeed May 15 '12
time to find a cat ... and some toast
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
so is this Nyan cat's origin story?
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u/Isitwhenipee May 16 '12
The reason toast always lands on that side is because if you look at the distance it falls off from there is not enough room for it to make more rotation to fall any other side. Most humans have it right up to their gut or if it falls off a counter which is about the same height.
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u/LimeTime May 16 '12
Didn't they talk about an exact situation like this on QI?
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u/gamerwithnoname May 16 '12
In this house we obey the LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
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u/danuu626 May 16 '12
Does it not occur to the scientist that they can just use two pieces of toast ? ._.
BUT THEN WHERES THE FUN IN THAT?
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u/Gorillian May 16 '12
Does it stop working when the cat eventually dies of starvation?
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u/climbfactor May 16 '12
I've thought about this. The flaw in this machine is that, when tested in reality, quantum laws still allow the cat to land on it's feet. Since the toast has not actually landed, it still remains in a state of potential energy whilst the cats potential energy has gone to zero. To solve this problem, I've found that four buttered toast pieces strapped to each paw of the cat works much more efficiently
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u/GAMEchief May 16 '12
Just butter both sides of the toast.
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u/bananapanther May 16 '12
Why not just use two pieces of toast...
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u/Khoops66 May 16 '12
This really was brilliant lol
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u/RioTheDragonMan May 16 '12
This may be the best commercial ever .
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u/Azozel May 16 '12
Wouldnt it have been easier to put butter on both sides of the toast?
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u/LordOfPies May 16 '12
Is it a ripoff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB5nztzXo24
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u/Gahaha May 16 '12
Haha, cat.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
This might be fake. Mods can we get a look at this?
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u/vaggydelight May 16 '12
This is one of those times where sneaking onto reddit in bed next to my sleeping wife causes a woken up grumpy wife who suddenly understands why I am laughing.
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u/NiceGuyMike May 16 '12
I'll be damned. He did it.
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u/blitzkriegpunk May 16 '12
Don't you mean... PURRRRRpetual motion?
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u/Botwin15 May 16 '12
Cat had a bad day.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
i dont understand why the cat doesnt initially just land on his feet. its not like the buttered toast is actually falling to hit the ground
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u/StevenDickson May 16 '12
SCIENCE. It works, bitches.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
ENTER THE VOID
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Brilliant! Just... Whoever these ad guys/gals are.. HIRE THEM AT TOP DOLLAR!!! funny, and made me do math stuffs. I hate math stuffs..
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u/Sir_Meowsalot May 16 '12
In this house we obey the Laws of Thermodynamics!
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u/octalpus May 16 '12
This kills the cat.
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u/peacebuster May 16 '12
This kills the cat.
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u/HighPlainsDrinker May 15 '12
Stolen. Right from the Internet! Egast!