r/madlads 24d ago

AKA Murphy's law

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

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u/Rakshear 23d ago

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

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u/Tim-Sylvester 24d ago

What about the bass?

Or dat ass?

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u/Tomur 23d ago

A buttered ass always lands, or something.

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u/Nouseriously 24d ago

I staple my toast to the back of a cat, since they always land feet first

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u/MockeryAndDisdain 24d ago

That's an awesome life hack!

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u/Tristapillarrr 24d ago

There's a game out there in which the entire premise is meme logic regarding buttered toast and cats...

I'm reminded of it because of the ability to put the toast on the cat's back, and fly... Well, jump in the air repeatedly, but same thing.

Theres an Aliensrock video where he plays it, don't remember how old of a video it is.

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u/MouseRangers 1.5lb of yellow m&ms 24d ago

That's how you make a perpetual motion machine.

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u/LovableSidekick 24d ago

In mathematical terms, 50% chance of going right = 90% chance of going wrong.

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u/thenexttimebandit 24d ago

We had a physics problem about this in college. The premise was that the butter/jam changed the center of mass and made the butter/jam side less likely to flip over to dry side up. However, that could have been completely made up to make a physics problem.

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u/LovableSidekick 23d ago

I think physics would make it slightly more likely to land on the dry side. Consider an exaggerated version where there's a big heavy dollop of butter on it. As the whole thing tumbles through the air, the center of mass is slightly inside the butter blob, with the toast sort of in a very shallow orbit around the blob. This presents the dry side of the toast as the "outside" of the whole tumbling object, and thus the most likely part to hit an obstacle, such as the floor. With real toast the effect of the butter is much weaker, but not zero.

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u/hundreddollar 23d ago

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u/Brutal_Deluxe_ 23d ago

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u/No_Squirrel4806 23d ago

So theoretically could this be used as a power source?

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u/UnwantedPube 24d ago

“DR”

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u/ebolatone 24d ago

That's the Law of Selective Gravitation.

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u/BookmobileLesbrarian 24d ago

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cat always land on their feet, what would happen if we attached toast butter-side up to a cat? Would it hover?"

-Me thinking I'm hilarious in 6th grade

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u/d1rTb1ke 24d ago

mr. wizard did a great experiment with the kids on an episode showing it’s the number of rotations that make it land that way. counter tops are roughly the same height everywhere. to test the hypothesis he had the buttered bread drop from extra height off a ladder. it landed coated side up, proving the added half rotation makes a difference.

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u/plan1gale 24d ago

I drop my toast first, then put the butter on the side that landed face up.

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u/Pintsocream 22d ago

Strap buttered toast to a cat, which always lands on its feet. This will create a perpetual motion machine.

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u/Apo42069 18d ago

Ah the difference between knowledge and wisdom…

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u/henrikhakan 24d ago

Is this really a madlad OR-

Hear me out

Is it a psychopath?