Just what IS the buttered cat paradox?

Question

i've never heard of it...!!

Answer 1

quantum physics?

In space, there is a cat in a box and you shoot a gun randomly into space. In Quantum physics, the chances are equal that you have a dead cat or a live one.

Heard this at a kegger once, I doubt it means anything.

Answer 2

Cats always land on their feet.
Buttered toast always lands buttered side down.

The paradox arises when one considers what would happen if one attached a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat, then dropped the cat from a height.

Some people maintain that the experiment will produce an anti-gravity effect. They propose that as the cat falls towards the ground, it will slow down and start to rotate, eventually reaching a steady state of hovering a short distance from the ground while rotating at high speed as both the buttered side of the toast and the cat’s feet attempt to land on the ground

Answer 3

A slice of toast buttered on one side, when dropped on the floor will tend to land with the buttered side down, unlike a cat, which, when buttered, will always land on its feet.

Answer 4

Cats always land on their feet.
Buttered toast always lands buttered side down.

What would happen if you tied a piece of toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat and dropped them off a ledge?

Edit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox

Answer 5

cats always land on their feet
toast always lands butter side down,

so if you strapped a piece of toast to a cats back, neither could land.

congratulations youve just created anti gravity ! or really annoyed your cat

Answer 6

If you are scratched by a cat recently buttered it will take a pair of docs to cure you. I swear this is true, my mother in law told me and she never, ever lies.