# What is your problem, Chronos? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519 "2025-11-03T03:41:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/201 "2025-11-25T13:53:15Z")
In fact, i thought I’d participated in that thread, and it has ended with a video of a cat jumping incredibly high. But that thread was probably before my time, and i didn’t post in it, and it doesn’t include the video. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/202 "2025-11-25T14:04:06Z")
I probably saw this thread: > [@Remember that thread with the dumb argument about jumping cats?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-thread-with-the-dumb-argument-about-jumping-cats/455671): > > You know - the one where it was against the laws of physics for any animal to be able to jump higher than three feet - and any observation to the contrary was ‘anecdotal’ or otherwise worthless? Remember that one? OK, now have a look at this video: [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1474352/kitten\_jumps\_7\_ft/](http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1474352/kitten_jumps_7_ft/) When the video freezes at 0:31, no part of the cat’s body is lower than the chin of the person standing alongside - this is a height of at least four feet - probably five. The cat’s centre… The video in the first post is no longer there, but the one linked ~post 33 is, and it’s worth watching: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OCcfymXQkM4/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgXChUMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAUbRpoz7Q413YolBM_nF1u4MoygQ "Mutegi Jumps 7 Feet!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCcfymXQkM4) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/203 "2025-11-25T20:06:36Z")
Was the second cat in the frame during the first segment? I didn’t even notice it until well past the one minute mark. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/204 "2025-11-25T20:53:21Z")
Why are we arguing about @Blake? He doesn’t exist. No reputable journal has ever posted any paper saying that he exists, and all of the testimony that he does is purely anecdotal. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/205 "2025-11-26T00:29:54Z")
Really. Get back to the original subject of the thread … pitting @Chronos ! 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/206 "2025-11-26T02:27:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Why are we arguing about @Blake? He doesn’t exist. No reputable journal has ever posted any paper saying that he exists, and all of the testimony that he does is purely anecdotal. [Asked and answered](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-blake/998843) ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/207 "2025-12-03T23:27:24Z")
Has @Stranger_On_A_Train R-U-N-N-O-F-T ? It’s been just over a month since this thread was started, and almost a month since Stranger’s last post on these fair boards. I hope everyone is able to move past any remaining unpleasantries, and our smart posters remain engaged here (c’mon back). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/208 "2025-12-03T23:39:41Z")
There have been a few times over the years that I’ve been here that he has left for months (apparently in a huff, at least it is usually after a comment or thread was critical of him) then showed back up again later. (Or, in his penchant for movie references) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UPw-3e_pzqU/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgQCgvMA8=&rs=AOn4CLC1EYgkIGY0XotG6yVaSdozNL4Stw "Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU) ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/209 "2025-12-03T23:50:43Z")
I’ve provided conflicting material to both Chronos and Stranger on a Train and in my experience… well it was fine. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/210 "2025-12-04T00:27:56Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > There have been a few times over the years that I’ve been here that he has left for months (apparently in a huff,… If that’s too soon, he can leave in a minute-and-a-huff. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/211 "2025-12-06T21:39:22Z")
Here’s me defending Blake in 2016. I had done the same in 2012. Now it’s 2025, and bullshit dies hard. I won’t go into it again, but absolutely stand by the first two sentences of my linked post. > [@The oddest posters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oddest-posters/761038/159): > > Actually that thread stands as one of the board’s ugliest examples of self-righteous, but erroneous, “group think”. Blake was essentially correct (nit-picking is always possible) and the people arguing against him were wrong in a dozen different ways – but no one cared about the gross lapses of logic from the posters who were on the same side as themselves. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=230754&page=4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=230754&page=4) The thread was re-animated this year. Best evidence currently availabl… ---
**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:** [December 6, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/212 "2025-12-06T21:53:40Z")
Blake said that it was flatly impossible for a cat to jump 5’ high, even with almost everyone else in the thread assuring him that they’d seen it themselves, posting cites to that effect, and eventually even videos. He wasn’t “essentially correct”, and in fact he explicitly rejected the notion that could be argued to make him “essentially correct”: He specifically said that a factor of 2 difference was too large of a difference to qualify as “about a meter”. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/213 "2025-12-06T22:27:07Z")
Chronos. Take a peek at the video @puzzlegal posted in this thread. At the 56 sec mark, the cat’s back feet just about reach the bottom of the fireplace mantel. Well below the man’s nipples. Then the feet are pulled up and the cat’s body rotates, but that’s the actual height of the jump. And it’s not 60” unless the guy is 2 meters high. That’s about the 48” that I mentioned in my linked post. I hate to explain it to someone that I regard as much more evidence saavy than myself, but a human that dunks a basketball isn’t jumping 10 feet, and a giraffe that gets 12 inches off the ground isn’t jumping 19 feet. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/214 "2025-12-06T22:30:00Z")
More than a meter, though. And some do get close to 2 meters, which Blake said was right out. There are times when people might be “essentially correct”. That was not one of them. Not remotely or even “essentially” ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/215 "2025-12-06T22:33:31Z")
“Some get close to 2 meters”? Please provide video evidence. Please review the earlier threads. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/216 "2025-12-06T22:35:20Z")
It’s Blake’s first fucking post in the thread. He doubts a cat jumps even 4 feet. This is not some nitpicky shit. He was just flat out wrong from the start and doubled down hard (seems to be a common trait, come to think of it…). ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/217 "2025-12-06T22:41:33Z")
And you Mr. Antibob, couldn’t even bother to read my linked post in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/218 "2025-12-06T22:45:35Z")
Yes, I read it (and you need to do better with the links within the quoted post - the one inside the post from 2016 no longer works properly with the current incarnation of the board). Now what? I admit I did not read it correctly? Your own post had to do a lot of leaping itself (of logic) to get to the point where Blake was within something resembling almost correct. So, no, I fucking did not read it incorrectly. Happy? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/219 "2025-12-06T23:02:34Z")
Let me be sure I have this right - you two are getting upset arguing over a claim from nine years ago by a poster who is long disappeared from these boards? Okay then. Carry on! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519/220 "2025-12-06T23:05:15Z")
Fair point - it’s another pointless internet argument Though, for the sake of accuracy, I’m more upset at the current poster claiming other current posters are dishonest and engaging in groupthink. I don’t actually care about Blake, except to the extent it’s relevant to that point [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-problem-chronos/1024519.md?page=12)