Commando Archive

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StarNick wrote:

Im 25% Murphy (hopefully the 50% greek cancels that out...)...anyone remember Murphy's Law? Anything that can go wrong, will. Ie. Drop buttered toast on a new rug, it'll always hit buttered side down!

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Not to hijack a thread, but if buttered bread always falls butter side down, and a cat always lands on its feet....

What happens if you strap a piece of bread butter side up to a cats back, and drop him?

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garvin wrote:

Anyway...just wanted to make sure you all know my schedule, especially since many are use to me posting pretty much all day long...

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Believe it or not, the following is true:

It is possible to levitate objects, due to the remarkable properties of superconducting materials, specifically that magnetic fields can not exist within them; they "bounce" all magnetism away. All you have to do in this case is use a magnet as a platform. Using another technique of creating an intense magnetic field, you can levitate objects without the use of the magnetic platform, the object itself acts as the magnet and repels from the field. The more massive the object, the greater the field strength needed to provide the levitating force. It is this process which is in effect when you see the famous photographs of floating frogs.

What does this have to do with toast?

Well, the same principle applies here; if you drop a cat with toast attached to it anywhere within a magnetic field, as you would find on Earth, the cat levitates. In laymans terms, both the feet of the cat and the buttered side of the toast "want" to land to the carpet, and to an equal degree. The magnetic field of the Earth causes a spin moment to occur, upon dropping, and much as in the same way an AC motor works, the cat spins on it's head-tail axis. (It is interesting to note that in the Northern Hemisphere, the cat will spin anti-clockwise when looking at the cat's head, and will spin clockwise when in the Southern Hemisphere) As we all know, a conductor rotating in a Magnetic Field such as the Earth's causes an induced current in that conductor, which itself has a corresponding magnetic field. It is the interaction of these two magnetic fields which causes the cat to levitate. As the cat drops, it begins to rotate, and as the cat nears the ground, the rotation accelerates, increasing the magnetic field strength around the cat, and thus gravity becomes counteracted and the decelerates toward the ground. Eventually an equilibrium state is reached and the cat levitates, spinning regularly.

It should be noted that at the Earth's equator the magnetic field is insufficient to produce a spin moment. Dropping a Cat/Toast entity in such an environment can be very dangerous, as much like the classic irresistable force/immovable force scenario, the Cat/Toast body will eventually be forced to land, resolving that question. Such an answer is beyond the fundamental laws of a constant reality however, and upon landing the Universe is forced to remove the Cat/Toast entity from existance in order to avoid a paradox. The energy released upon such a removal can be colossal.

It is worth noting that the Cat/Toast entity problem provides the closest "solution" possible to the perpetual motion argument, and that also harnessed correctly, the paradoxical solution for the entity landing could be used as a source of clean renewable energy. Scientists are looking into this as we speak.

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RazerWolf wrote:
Believe it or not, the following is true:

It is possible to levitate objects, due to the remarkable properties of superconducting materials, specifically that magnetic fields can not exist within them; they "bounce" all magnetism away. All you have to do in this case is use a magnet as a platform. Using another technique of creating an intense magnetic field, you can levitate objects without the use of the magnetic platform, the object itself acts as the magnet and repels from the field. The more massive the object, the greater the field strength needed to provide the levitating force. It is this process which is in effect when you see the famous photographs of floating frogs.

What does this have to do with toast?

Well, the same principle applies here; if you drop a cat with toast attached to it anywhere within a magnetic field, as you would find on Earth, the cat levitates. In laymans terms, both the feet of the cat and the buttered side of the toast "want" to land to the carpet, and to an equal degree. The magnetic field of the Earth causes a spin moment to occur, upon dropping, and much as in the same way an AC motor works, the cat spins on it's head-tail axis. (It is interesting to note that in the Northern Hemisphere, the cat will spin anti-clockwise when looking at the cat's head, and will spin clockwise when in the Southern Hemisphere) As we all know, a conductor rotating in a Magnetic Field such as the Earth's causes an induced current in that conductor, which itself has a corresponding magnetic field. It is the interaction of these two magnetic fields which causes the cat to levitate. As the cat drops, it begins to rotate, and as the cat nears the ground, the rotation accelerates, increasing the magnetic field strength around the cat, and thus gravity becomes counteracted and the decelerates toward the ground. Eventually an equilibrium state is reached and the cat levitates, spinning regularly.

It should be noted that at the Earth's equator the magnetic field is insufficient to produce a spin moment. Dropping a Cat/Toast entity in such an environment can be very dangerous, as much like the classic irresistable force/immovable force scenario, the Cat/Toast body will eventually be forced to land, resolving that question. Such an answer is beyond the fundamental laws of a constant reality however, and upon landing the Universe is forced to remove the Cat/Toast entity from existance in order to avoid a paradox. The energy released upon such a removal can be colossal.

It is worth noting that the Cat/Toast entity problem provides the closest "solution" possible to the perpetual motion argument, and that also harnessed correctly, the paradoxical solution for the entity landing could be used as a source of clean renewable energy. Scientists are looking into this as we speak.

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My head just exploded.

Also, I can solve the scientists problems real quick:

Cat + buttered bread + duct tape = perpetual motion.

At the very least, it would be funny.

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garvin wrote:

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RankorCity wrote:

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StarNick wrote:

Im 25% Murphy (hopefully the 50% greek cancels that out...)...anyone remember Murphy's Law? Anything that can go wrong, will. Ie. Drop buttered toast on a new rug, it'll always hit buttered side down!

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Not to hijack a thread, but if buttered bread always falls butter side down, and a cat always lands on its feet....

What happens if you strap a piece of bread butter side up to a cats back, and drop him?

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42

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42 what?

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RankorCity wrote:

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garvin wrote:

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RankorCity wrote:

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StarNick wrote:

Im 25% Murphy (hopefully the 50% greek cancels that out...)...anyone remember Murphy's Law? Anything that can go wrong, will. Ie. Drop buttered toast on a new rug, it'll always hit buttered side down!

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Not to hijack a thread, but if buttered bread always falls butter side down, and a cat always lands on its feet....

What happens if you strap a piece of bread butter side up to a cats back, and drop him?

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42

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42 what?

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42...it's the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything...

(huge Douglas Adams fan...met him several times before he passed )

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garvin wrote:

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RankorCity wrote:

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garvin wrote:

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RankorCity wrote:

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StarNick wrote:

Im 25% Murphy (hopefully the 50% greek cancels that out...)...anyone remember Murphy's Law? Anything that can go wrong, will. Ie. Drop buttered toast on a new rug, it'll always hit buttered side down!

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Not to hijack a thread, but if buttered bread always falls butter side down, and a cat always lands on its feet....

What happens if you strap a piece of bread butter side up to a cats back, and drop him?

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42

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42 what?

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42...it's the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything...

(huge Douglas Adams fan...met him several times before he passed )

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Speaking of which...i still gotta read that book...

or A'nita will disown me hehe...

HG2G movie

HITCH-HIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY MOVIE!!!! /faint How did i not hear about this before now