Tracy - I don't see why not....

LOL. I'd be happy to do the buttering, if you can figure out a way to do it without actually touching the cat.

Might I recommend long gloves.

Elbow length, black? Très élégant!

Not when they're covered in butter they're not. Wear the gloves, come on over, and forget the cat. ;^)

Thanks for the invite. Ask again in about 5 months.

I'm happy to say I'll be cat free in 5 1/2 days. Poor you, though, with 4 of them to look after.

They've all gone out, and even the neighbours haven't seen them. There's only so much one can do about it. Sarah! I keep leaving these posts! Advice!

Sorry about my other post --- you mysterious thing.

KT: when were you in the astronomy dept at leeds? I did my degree there...

dave - I wasn't at Leeds, I just nicked the post from their website. I was at Warwick, doing Biology/Geography/Teaching.

What, all of them? Just disappeared? I don't understand that at all. They're normally always around when they want feeding. You've got me quite worried now. :-(

I wasn't online at all yesterday, so I didn't see any of your posts. Please let me know who turns up and when.

See chicken and cats

when the cats lick themselves clean then they'd land on their feet, so the motion is not perpetual. Also the amount of energy required to set up the initial conditions (catching of cat, buttering of cat, catching of cat again, insertion of said dynamo into said orriface of said cat) would exceed any energy produced.

Sorry, I'm afraid you'll have to go back to the drawing board

rob

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That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
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rob- not really as

a) the cat is rotating so fast that it'll have problems just to think about licking itself clean. if it does then
b) is it always possible to fixate its head, that it cannot turn it to lick its back
c) catching and buttering can be done with low amount of initial energy when using anaesthetics

Theory is perfect, we just need experiments now to develop perfect cat-based energy plant.



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