Comments on: Good CATch https://thenewneo.com/2021/09/12/good-catch-2/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:59:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/09/12/good-catch-2/#comment-2576752 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:59:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110436#comment-2576752 @AesopFan:

Well I’m glad the Replication Crisis won’t require more cats to take flying lessons. There’s going to be a lot of disappointed dogs and canaries though.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2021/09/12/good-catch-2/#comment-2576749 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:46:38 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110436#comment-2576749 Okay Bryan, you win!

However, here are a couple more videos.
The first moving pictures of a falling cat from 1894 by a French scientist using the newfangled technology called “film”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs87FijgVaA

How This Cat Survived A 32-Story Fall – animated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m5CtIknAg4

I think we can safely say the science is settled on THIS subject.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/09/12/good-catch-2/#comment-2576747 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:37:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110436#comment-2576747 Thanks for nothing, Arnold Schoenberg, you cacophonous coprolite!

]]> By: jon baker https://thenewneo.com/2021/09/12/good-catch-2/#comment-2576743 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:14:52 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110436#comment-2576743 huxley,
I suspect that those wing suites require significant body strength and endurance, and shoulders not prone to dislocation.

]]> By: Bryan Lovely https://thenewneo.com/2021/09/12/good-catch-2/#comment-2576663 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:29:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110436#comment-2576663 I like this cat-flipping video. 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yW5cyXXRc

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2021/09/12/good-catch-2/#comment-2576659 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:10:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110436#comment-2576659 This is one reason people say that cats have nine lives – they walk away from falls that would kill a lot of other animals. Here’s how it works.

Slow Motion Flipping Cat Physics | Smarter Every Day 58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWbpyjJqrU

If you run the second video in Neo’s post at .25 speed, you can see the cat twist just after letting go, before spreading his legs for the parasail maneuver, but it still happens very fast.

I’m going to find this guy’s other videos on cats later, but they were published in 2012 so who knows if they will turn up.

Next I’ll explain how the physics involved in flipping cats allow us to operate Space Telescopes (Seriously).
So as simple of a question as this is, it turns out to be a MAJOR POINT OF STUDY in Physics, Robotics, Space Satellite Control, Weapons Development, Biomedical Engineering, etc. It’s stumped scientists and engineers since Newton’s day. Here’s something interesting. The cat isn’t twisting his back.. he’s actually BENDING it.

The next video will go into great detail about what’s going on there, and explain how it relates to studying the farthest points in the universe (Seriously… the fact that a cat can do this allows us to study the Universe.. no exaggeration).

EDIT
Found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AR4yntqLsQ
Space Telescopes Maneuver like CATS – Smarter Every Day 59

]]> By: Bryan Lovely https://thenewneo.com/2021/09/12/good-catch-2/#comment-2576634 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:16:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110436#comment-2576634 Cats survive falls from incredible heights all the time, but there’s a middle zone from IIRC 2-9 stories where they do not. Under two stories, their natural springiness saves them, and over nine stories they relax and spread out and slow their fall, but in between they don’t have either defense.

]]> By: OlderandWheezier https://thenewneo.com/2021/09/12/good-catch-2/#comment-2576624 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:48:57 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110436#comment-2576624 Meanwhile, September 13th is Arnold Schoenberg’s birthday!

Great video. Thanks for the link, Cappy.

If only Saturday had been Schrödinger’s.

]]> By: OlderandWheezier https://thenewneo.com/2021/09/12/good-catch-2/#comment-2576623 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:43:02 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110436#comment-2576623 Some cats not only survive leaps or falls from several stories up, but come away relatively uninjured. The cat in the video below had the benefit of a softer grassy area on which to land.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaw5EJeoddU

]]> By: PA+Cat https://thenewneo.com/2021/09/12/good-catch-2/#comment-2576620 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:25:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=110436#comment-2576620 AesopFan:

Puns aside, some nonbinary folk are now using “cat” as their purrsonal pronoun. According to Pronoun Wiki, here is how to use “cat” properly in order not to offend someone who identifies as one:

“Catself pronouns is a gender neutral neopronoun set inspired by the word ‘cat.’ Anyone can use them, regardless of gender identity or expression.

Case Pronoun Example

Nominative Cat Cat went to the store
Accusative Cat I met cat today
Possessive Cat’s or Cats Cat walked cat’s dog today OR
Cat walked cats dog today
Predicate Possessive Cat’s or Cats If I need a phone my friend will let
me borrow cat’s OR
my friend will let me borrow cats
Reflexive Catself Cat has to drive catself to school

Origin: The pronouns were coined by Tumblr user xeno-aligned on 10 September 2018.”

https://pronoun.fandom.com/wiki/Catself

You can’t make this stuff up.

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