TheBanyanTree: Ouch

[Stew Young]

It's the definition of a perpetual motion anti-gravity machine.


On Dec 17, 2007 10:18 AM, Theta Brentnall <tybrent at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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