Cats always land feet first.
Strap a piece of toast butter side up on a cats back and drop it.
It will stay above the ground, slowly spinning. Hook it up to a dynamo and you will get free energy!
Perpetual motion machine!
Created 17 years ago2007-10-05 12:07:12 UTC by
Alabastor_Twob
Created 17 years ago2007-10-05 12:07:12 UTC by
Alabastor_Twob
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-05 12:07:12 UTC
Post #235737
Toast always lands butter side down.
Cats always land feet first.
Strap a piece of toast butter side up on a cats back and drop it.
It will stay above the ground, slowly spinning. Hook it up to a dynamo and you will get free energy!
Cats always land feet first.
Strap a piece of toast butter side up on a cats back and drop it.
It will stay above the ground, slowly spinning. Hook it up to a dynamo and you will get free energy!
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-05 12:08:49 UTC
Post #235738
REALLY FUCKING OLD!!
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-05 12:34:46 UTC
Post #235740
Someone watched Mythbusters. 
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-05 12:46:26 UTC
Post #235744
I was thinkng the same thing D:
By the way, not that it could happen anyway, but if it did then the result would be both floating sideways. Like a magnet suspended on a magnet, eventually the downward force of the cat and the upward force of the toast would balance out, and both would be floating sideways in the air.
By the way, not that it could happen anyway, but if it did then the result would be both floating sideways. Like a magnet suspended on a magnet, eventually the downward force of the cat and the upward force of the toast would balance out, and both would be floating sideways in the air.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-05 14:31:56 UTC
Post #235751
old as the internet and fucking reposted on this board like 3 times
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-07 11:41:20 UTC
Post #235930
The toast is not as true as the cats. I say strap two cats back to back, I honostly wonder how that would turn out.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-07 18:58:54 UTC
Post #235946
Probably a lot of howling and scratching your eyes before you gave up?
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 02:37:56 UTC
Post #235956
Toast does not always land butter side down, as the Mythbusters proved. Awesome show!
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 03:32:42 UTC
Post #235957
I'd like to see them prove that cats don't always land on their feet. They'd probably get bored and blow one up.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 04:03:49 UTC
Post #235958
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 08:38:48 UTC
Post #235963
The cat would explode, which is still worth a try.
TO MYTHBUSTERS!
TO MYTHBUSTERS!
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 09:39:03 UTC
Post #235965
Solutions:
1.Don't butter the toast
2. Hacksaw the cats legs off, it wont land on it feet anymore, it will just thump to the floor.
1.Don't butter the toast
2. Hacksaw the cats legs off, it wont land on it feet anymore, it will just thump to the floor.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 11:23:04 UTC
Post #235978
1. Drop the toast, then butter it.
2. Butter the floor and then throw the toast down.
3. Don't be so fucking clumsy and drop your toast?
2. Butter the floor and then throw the toast down.
3. Don't be so fucking clumsy and drop your toast?
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 11:27:17 UTC
Post #235979
I'd never even heard of the cat thing until a few days ago - didn't know it was old.
Mythbusters was wrong, 'cause nothing on TV is real, but the show still rules.
(anyone know where to get ballistics gel?)
Mythbusters was wrong, 'cause nothing on TV is real, but the show still rules.
(anyone know where to get ballistics gel?)
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 12:08:58 UTC
Post #235981
why not butter both sides epic luhlz
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 14:02:38 UTC
Post #235987
I have this idea once to using visking tubing to achieve the effect of creating energy from nothing. A completely sealed unit with visking tubing which using osmosis absorbs chemicals and drips them onto a turbine-like object, rotating it. These chemicals then run back into the pool at the bottom. Technically this process should continue forever... 
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 14:06:22 UTC
Post #235988
did anyone understand what alex just posted
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 16:27:19 UTC
Post #235996
Yes. However osmosis is a slow process and if a turbine is light enough to be turned by slight drips then the power it would generate would be insufficient to power anything.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 16:29:09 UTC
Post #235998
What if you buttered both sides of the toast?
Dude.
Dude.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 16:30:03 UTC
Post #235999
Don't make me divide by zero...
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 20:38:59 UTC
Post #236006
I have no fucking idea why. But Rimrook, that made me fucking die of laughter.
Random + wtf = lulz
Random + wtf = lulz
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 21:53:11 UTC
Post #236012
lolwut?
I was expect an admin to say something like that...
I was expect an admin to say something like that...
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-08 22:02:36 UTC
Post #236013
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 02:36:01 UTC
Post #236017
Hahaha
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 07:10:40 UTC
Post #236026
Alex, your idea reminded me of a perpetual motion machine which pours water onto a water wheel, and then the turning wheel drives a pump which brings the water up to fall on the water wheel.
This idea, however, wouldn't work because there wouldn't be enough power in falling water to turn the wheel, or at least not enough to turn a wheel which powers a generator.
This idea, however, wouldn't work because there wouldn't be enough power in falling water to turn the wheel, or at least not enough to turn a wheel which powers a generator.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 08:01:10 UTC
Post #236027
Law of Thermodynamics > All Perpetual Motion
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 08:04:32 UTC
Post #236028
However.... the power generated by the wheel is less than that required by the pump, therefore as you're inputting energy, more energy is being used that is being created, therefore having a negative efficency.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 08:14:52 UTC
Post #236029
alex, the problem with yours is that it requires energy from the surroundings, so it's not perpetual at all
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 08:40:06 UTC
Post #236030
Perpetual motion is not possible.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 08:45:41 UTC
Post #236031
i dont think anyone here is stupid enough to believe it is 
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 09:40:00 UTC
Post #236032
I'd hope so.
But I wouldn't bet money on it
But I wouldn't bet money on it
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 10:57:41 UTC
Post #236036
.... Oh course it's possible! 
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 12:10:51 UTC
Post #236041
It could exist if you hald something spinning in a gravity free vacuum or something like that so that there was nowhere for the energy to go, but there are no environments like that, and it wouldn't create energy, so it would be completely pointless.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 12:15:48 UTC
Post #236042
...Or those magnetic suspending globes?! 
Like OMG11!!!
...However, obviously if this was attached to a generator, the friction inside it would slow it down.
I say we get everyone with no money or food in the world, put them in a massive factory the size of Africa, with millions of chairs with pedals attached. They pedal for an eight hour shift, then get free accommodation and food. Win win!
...However, obviously if this was attached to a generator, the friction inside it would slow it down.
I say we get everyone with no money or food in the world, put them in a massive factory the size of Africa, with millions of chairs with pedals attached. They pedal for an eight hour shift, then get free accommodation and food. Win win!
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 16:36:40 UTC
Post #236053
fixed
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 17:12:00 UTC
Post #236059
or those little ball thingys that go back and forth, arent those perpetual?
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 19:09:49 UTC
Post #236067
no, air resistance and kinetic energy slow it down.
The sound you hear, "tink tink" is actually energy being transferred from the bearings into sound waves.
They do, however last a good 20 minutes if balanced correctly
@ arcan
what exactly did you fix, i'm not seeing anything?
The sound you hear, "tink tink" is actually energy being transferred from the bearings into sound waves.
They do, however last a good 20 minutes if balanced correctly
@ arcan
what exactly did you fix, i'm not seeing anything?
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-09 19:12:57 UTC
Post #236069
Put it in a vacuum with a state of the art no oil bearings. Forget the name of them, but it's like floating on nothing without friction.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-10 05:06:23 UTC
Post #236077
Even state of the art bearings produce friction.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-10 08:14:18 UTC
Post #236078
Saw1833- are you talking about a Newtons Cradle?
I've got one of those but it only goes for about 5 seconds.
I've got one of those but it only goes for about 5 seconds.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-10 14:52:44 UTC
Post #236094
alex link was broken
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-10 15:20:14 UTC
Post #236098
what.
Posted 17 years ago2007-10-10 15:22:35 UTC
Post #236099
Heh, this reminds me when I was a kid, I used to think that making an electric engine that powers, say, a wheel AND a small generator would be making a perpetual machine.
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