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Children to test Murphy's Law with buttered toast

10:07:07 am mst / 8 March 2001 found by diana / filed in science / source Ananova 74 hits / 2 comments / 0 e-mails

Children in London are letting hundreds of slices of buttered and unbuttered toast slip from their plates at varying heights, all in the name of science, namely testing Murphy's Law. (Link from BBspot.)

Buttered toast with jam would also be good to add, as Murphy's Law would more likely be in effect with a gooey, messy substance like jam. :-)

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butter vs jam by MysteriousStranger 10:52:14 am mst / 8 March 2001 / # 1

What if you put butter on one side and jam on the other side? If Murphy's law holds, you could determine which of the two substances would be least desirable to land on the floor.

What about.... by MysteriousStranger 8:13:10 am mst / 9 March 2001 / # 2

What about the "old joke" about making an anti-gravity device? Warning: I'm not claiming this as an original idea, just passing it along. Fact: Buttered toast always lands butter-side down when dropped Fact: Cats always land on their feet when dropped upside-down Combining these two, strap buttered toast onto the backs of cats and drop them. The cat and the toast will continuously fight to land on their side and cause a spinning action. Eventually, the spinning cat-toast combination will hover above the ground before actually ever hitting the ground. If we strap a lot of cat-toast devices onto the bottom of cars, trucks or trains, we'll have an anti-gravity hover-craft. I doubt PETA will appreciate this idea.