{"id":8689,"date":"2011-05-16T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8689"},"modified":"2011-05-16T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T08:00:20","slug":"pair-of-ducks-no-its-a-buttered-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8689","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Ducks?  No, it&#039;s a Buttered Cat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/87351\">The Buttered Cat Paradox<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those who have tackled the problem as a thought experiment (meaning, no cats were harmed) have come to the conclusion that the buttered cat would stop falling at some point above the floor. Then, as the cat tries to orient its feet against the attraction of the butter to the floor, the cat would begin spinning -and never stop. The result could be called a true perpetual motion machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The claim is that the kinetic energy of the buttered (or jellied) cat is converted into rotational energy as the cat hovers; in that sense it is not necessarily an over-unity device since the cat could then slow down as you tapped into that energy.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buttered Cat Paradox Those who have tackled the problem as a thought experiment (meaning, no cats were harmed) have come to the conclusion that the buttered cat would stop falling at some point above the floor. Then, as the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}