need help with science....

[RICHARD]

I love science but I need help..


One quart of cat kibble, each piece .25 inches square, will cover how much area when spilled by your cat????

A dishtowel is dropped into a water dish.
Thru capillary action at the rate of three ounces an hours How long will it take a 2 liter water dish to completely empty onto a floor?


I believe that a falling object travels at 32 feet a second?

How long will it take a keyboard to fall 4 feet....


and

If three keys are knocked off the standard keyboard each time it hits the ground, How many hits will it take to knock of all the keys???



Ed wants to know.....He just can't use a calculator....no opposable thumbs....!!!

[Sonia59]

I am a scientist, and I laughed a lot!
Nevertheless, I am sure Ed will get all the answers for us soon....

[LaRana]

Answer #1) Whatever area your floor covers in an open space without any floor obstructions, if you have a cat.

Answer #2) It will take milliseconds for the liter water to be on the floor, after the cat has found the dish.

Answer #3) 1 Second, after the fat cat jumps off of one end.

Answer #4) None, if you decide to superglue or velcro tape the keyboard to the desk to avoid problem #3.

[Barbara]

Ed is no theoretical physicist- he won't calculate.
He just does experiments

[Killearn Kitties]

Ha! I was just about to say that "Barbara is your woman for this question as she is a physicist" , but I see that she has been no help at all!

[Lightning SuperCat]

That is SO funny! Ed, did you think about what would happen and consider the facts, of did you just try and do everything without thinking? And Richard, if you were nice to Ed you could buy him a big calculator with huge buttons for him to use! No thumbs needed! LOL

[lbaker]

Read next weeks issue of Science under "Research Articles". A peer reviewed paper and presentation will be offered at the next Annual Meeting.

[Randy_K]

Logically, the keyboard (if it's a 102 or 103 key model) will have to hit the floor 35 times to remove all of the key caps. Given the average cat, that should be accomplished in about 48 hours

Also, if you walk into the kitchen under two simultaneously occurring conditions: 1) in the dark and 2) in your bare feet, it will probably appear that the kibble covers all available surface area.

[catmandu]

WHEN A CAT SPILLS HIS DRY FOOD,OR BRINGS IT UP,ITS A SCIENTIFIC FACT,THAT IT HAS,TO LAND EXCATLY,WHERE YOU ARE GOING,TO WALK,NO EXCEPTIONS,WHAT SO EVER!

[RICHARD]

And I was going to ask how many pounds of force a 15 lb. cat, who's paw surface area is one square inch, can put on a sleeping human's bladder.....

[Randy_K]

Actually cats can control the effect of gravity on them. An empirical study shows that cats can land on a surface with the force of a feather or with the force of a boulder - or something in between.

When standing on a sleeping human they gradually adjust that gravitational "pull" until the desired effect is achieved.

[Randy_K]

For those metric fans challenged by the arcane English units of measure:

1 inch = 25.4 mm

1 foot = 30.48 cm (so a drop of 4 feet is 1.2 meters)

1 pound = 0.45 kg (so a chubby 15 pounds = 6.8 kg, which is still chubby)

[Barbara]

Randy, since I'm a Pet Talk regular, a conversion website and a dictionary are my closest computer accessories. The funny thing is that cats like a certain 7,2 lb Aby know how they can use gravity to enhance the force on my belly just as much as any rocket could (which usually needs more than gravity to do that )

[Sonia59]

Originally posted by Randy_K
Actually cats can control the effect of gravity on them. An empirical study shows that cats can land on a surface with the force of a feather or with the force of a boulder - or something in between.

When standing on a sleeping human they gradually adjust that gravitational "pull" until the desired effect is achieved.

Can't stop laughing!
I agree 500%, even if I can't explain WHY???

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Barbara
website and a dictionary are my closest computer accessories. The funny thing is that cats like a certain 7,2 lb Aby know how they can use gravity to enhance the force on my belly just as much as any rocket could (which usually needs more than gravity to do that )

And to think that they sent chimps and dogs into space first..

But I can see their point for not sending a cat...

Have your tried putting a cat into a carrier??

Now, try to get that same cat into a space capsule...