Perpetual Motion Machine

[McSnoresalot]

Facehugger keeps waking me up in the wee hours - not used to laying there waiting to back to sleep, have started using this "down" time in some sort of productive way.

This week I was thinking about alternative energy sources and I may have stumbled across something:

As everyone knows, if you drop a cat from a height of say, 4-5 feet, it will invariably land on it's feet - regardless of the position it was in when dropped.

Similarly, a buttered slice of toast will always land face down if you drop it in the kitchen - try it.

Using this information, couldn't you just tape a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and drop both from a height of say 4-5 feet?

I theorize the Cat-Buttered-Toast machine would drop to about 1 foot from the floor and then stall in a rotational hover!! All you have to do is harness the rotational energy and you have the mythical perpetual motion machine - sweeet.

Note: this worked perfectly in my Facehugger altered dream, but I have not been able to try a real-world application because I don't have a cat and Wifey says we can't get one because Dog is not fond of them.

If anyone wants to give it a shot, I'd be willing to share any Nobel-type awards.

Mac

[DocWeezy]

that one needed a spew alert!

Now I'm wiping tea off my screens and keyboard.

[TiggerMomNine]

Okay,

We have the toast. We have the cat. (Was it okay to use Smart Balance instead of butter????)

Unfortunately, the cat did not appreciate having buttered (Smart Balanced) toast taped to her back. The good news is the bleeding has almost stopped. Feeling too weak to continue...

If anyone else is successful, please let us know...

Thanks!

[Tip10]

that one needed a spew alert!

Now I'm wiping tea off my screens and keyboard.

Doc -- I learned after his first post -- swallow, set the coffee cup down and THEN and only THEN open McSnort's posts. To do otherwise risks having to continually be cleaning your monitor....

And to McSnoresalot please do not be offended by the McSnort moniker I use -- I mean no disrespect -- its just that snorting is generally what your posts invoke -- lest I be branded as being crazy for the hysterical laughter emanating from my office.

[Starlette]

ROFL
Got to love you Snore!
If you have these kind of thoughts when you should be sleeping, we can only guess what kind of concepts are created during your wake time. Still cracking up! After a tough day at the office, thank you sooo much for the much needed humor!

Starlette

[raylo]

This could be a revolutionary concept. If you put several of these cat-toast devices together, you could make a hovercraft to replace cars. There would, of course, be changes to the language we use discussing transportation: "My hovercraft has 94 catpower," "I get 32 MPL (miles per loaf)." Instead of leaded or unleaded, would it be "salted or unsalted"?

And think about this - would it be normal for there to be squealing/screeching sound when you start it up?