# Potential Universal Destructive experiment..

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**Created:** [May 18, 2000, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-universal-destructive-experiment/19843 "2000-05-18T08:58:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2000, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-universal-destructive-experiment/19843/1 "2000-05-18T08:58:28Z")

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Or Pude for short.

anyone got one??

I do.

I cant remember where I read about this, but I want to try it anyway.  
Here’s the thesis.

1. A Cat will always land on its feet.

2. Toast will always land butterside down.  
What would happen if you strapped a piece of hot buttered toast to a cat’s back, buttered side up?  
my answer… the very fabric of the universe would be ripped apart.

or, the universe will split in 2, one where the cat lands on its feet, and the universe continues, and the other side where the world ends.

Thoughts?  
Ideas?  
Fears?  
Please post them here.

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**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2000, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-universal-destructive-experiment/19843/2 "2000-05-18T09:38:16Z")

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Is this what you were thinking of?

Winning entries from a recent contest for “new scientific theories”  
**Sponsored by Omni magazine.**

THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER:  
When a cat is dropped, it ALWAYS lands on its feet; and when toast is dropped, it ALWAYS lands with the buttered side down. Therefore, I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat. When dropped, the two will hover, spinning inches above the ground, probably into eternity.

A “buttered-cat array” could replace pneumatic tires on cars and trucks, and “giant buttered-cat arrays” could easily allow a high-speed monorail to link between New  
York with Chicago.

Fears?

**Save the kitties!!**

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-universal-destructive-experiment/19843/3 "2000-05-18T21:58:43Z")

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Oh, come on, this one is easy. The cat lands on its feet and then rolls. Whenever you’ve got two absolute, inviolable laws like that, there’s always _some_ way to satisfy both.