Question!
 

Okay, so...

Did you ever notice that when you drop a piece of buttered bread, it always falls butter-side down. (It happens to me atleast)
And when a cat falls, it ALWAYS lands on its feet.

So, If you took a cat, tied a buttered piece of bread, butter-side up, and threw it off a 10 story building..... Which side would it land on?

On it's side.

It lands buttered side down because it usually begins buttered side up, and generally makes one flip on it's descent.

Experiments have proven that it actually prefers to land buttered side up when dropped from it's side, because the indendentation made by the buttering creates a contour shape in the bread.

Cats land on their feet cause they don't want to look like idiots.

Butter on bread = nts.
Cheese or Jam on bread = yts

The cat would land on its feet because the cat actively moves its feet so they are pointing down; the bread just lands butter side down because its more heavy on one side. If a cat can already land light side down, a few extra ounces will mean didly.

Whereas if the cat weighed the same as the toast...or the toast is the same weight as the cat...

Why am I saying toast?? It's buttered bread, not toast...I must have something for toast...

So if the cat and the piece of buttered bread were both the same weights...

If they are the same weights then surely they will spin around in the air trying to be the one to land first...until of course the cat eats the toast off its back and plummets to the ground, landing lightly on its feet.

Hm, I like lenny's answer the best so far.

Well, a cat can pivot its spine or some shit... That's why they 'always' land on their feet.

Obviously none of you watch Mythbusters.

buttered bread does NOT, I repeat, DOES NOT always fall butter-side down... it depends on the height of dropping!!
THIS was proven by lots of people on the program Hoe?Zo? on the belgian television.

THE END

That's where I got my explanation KA

Don't know that program... does it have a website? Cuz it sounds cool :o

If you spin the cat like a frisbee it lands on its head.

Haha pancake head cat.

I thought Bunny?

Mythbusters is awesome.

"So, now we're going to try this. We're not quite sure what's going to happen. Best case scenario: The theory holds true and the myth is debunked. Worse case scenario: Jamie dies. Lets go!"

It sounds like the kind of program Braniacs is...

Do you get Braniacs over there?? I always thought it was an American program...but it's got a Biritsh host, and seems to be a British program...it's all so confusing when you've only had 3 hours sleep in the past 48 hours...:D

Never heard of Brainiacs, though I will watch Mythbusters if I happen to stumble across is. They do some pretty cool stuff on that show. Usually involving firearms and/or explosives, and you can't go wrong there!

but you know what.. that mythbusters guy with the hat kinds looks like the bunny with a pancake on its head

http://shogun.shafted.com.au/temp/bu...th_pancake.jpg

http://www.tikivoodoo.com/archives/m...hBusters_2.jpg

Hahaha such a classic picture. I love it.

And you're right, he kinda does!