TheBanyanTree: Ouch

[Theta Brentnall]

Which brings to mind that age-old dilemma - what happens if you strap a 
piece of toast, butter side up, on the back of a cat and then drop the 
cat?  Besides pissing off the cat, that is.

Theta

Stew Young wrote:
> Speaking of falling down...
>
> Do you know why toast always lands butter side down? It's because if it
> didn't, we'd all be brain damaged.
>
> Apparently, we were designed to be of a certain height -- about 5'8 to 6'.
> Because of this, kitchen counters are designed at a certain height. And at
> this height, toast flips over a half turn to land butter side down.
>
> If we were any taller, counters would be higher, allowing the toast to flip
> over more than a half flip, and landing butter side up. However if we were
> taller, when we fell over, we would do significantly more damage to our
> skulls. As it is, our skulls can survive a fall from 5;8 to 6; pretty
> nicely.
>
> At least that's how Scientific American explained it years ago.
>
> Food (toast) for thought.
>
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