cats always land on their feet. When you drop a sandwich it always falls with the buttered side down. What really happens if you attach a sandwich (with the buttered side up) to a cats’ back and throw it out from the balcony
The cat lands on its feet. The reason the bread doesn’t fall buttered side down is that it never reaches the ground. You might try the experiment using two cats tied back-to-back.
Who butters the outside of a sandwich anyway? Assuming you’re having a butter sandwich, the butter would be on the inside of two pieces of bread. Therefore, this is a trick question.
Rickard, you are using a simplified version of the buttered bread rule. The Parkay Corrolary states that a piece of buttered bread will fall buttered side down on your carpet, yet fall buttered side up on a tile or laminated floor.
JBERGES, ever had a grilled cheese sandwich?
So when I park my cat on the driveway, why do my kidneys wake up in a bathtubgry full of ice?
Grilled cheese is buttered on both sides. Either way it falls is butter side down, so it is not useful in this experiment.
Now, I guess we could say we have a half-made grilled cheese, with butter on only one side strapped to the cat…
In that case, the cat will notice the sandwich on its back midair, and find a way to eat it, thus removing the paradox.
Or a big dog will be standing under the cat/sammich combo and eat them both.
What I want to know is what kind of weird person ties a sandwich to a cat? And what kind of cat stands still long enough to have a sandwich tied to it? It’s a silly question. Someone change the subject!
Oh yeah - and when I make grilled cheese, I spread mayo on the outside - yum!
Actually, there’s a reason bread always lands butter-side down:
It’s the Universe’s fault
Wow! Two legends in one! I am very impressed!
We shall soon have the definitive solution to this puzzling problem. I now have my cat sufficiently slathered in butter (OK, so it’s actually I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter–I hope that doesn’t skew the results) and I have a high-speed digital camera set to record Fluffy’s exact position at the moment of impact. I just need to know: From what height should I drop her? A quick reply would be appreciated.
Wait a minute…What’s this piece of bread for?
Standing upright, arms perpendicular to the body.
For true scientific results, the process should be repeated with a number of cats, and various types of bread and butter-ish spreads.
I just need to point out a previous discussion: A possible way to keep cats from falling
I swear Cecil answered this in one of his books. It’s one of the older ones.
Serious thought has already been given to this topic.