Seven Truffula Trees

[whichwayyoulean]

[Hephaestus Cabin Folks]

Hey guys? Let's never do drunk science again. That hangover really wasn't worth it and I'm pretty sure we were only a few steps away from doing something potentially evil. And my evil laugh really isn't good enough to be playing in even the minor leagues of evilness.

Also does anyone remember what happened to the guitar I made there? I remember deciding it needed to go on some robot, and someone else said it was a better idea to use on a Doom Vacuum? Did we even make that in the end?

[Yuan]
[No words in the journal for him, the Once-ler DID make good on his word to Martel. Yuan, you will have a car through your door today with crappy pieces of bead and macaroni art on the front, showing a blue-haired guy dancing. He has a cane and a top hat. On opening the card, a very inappropriate tune sounds. Inside are the simple words 'CONGRATULATIONS ON NOT BEING DEAD'

You're welcome]
[/Filters]


[The Once-ler is bored. This is never a good thing. Normally at this point, he'd make up an inane, pointless song with almost no tune or anything near decent lyrics. But not today, oh no. Today he has been thinking. And now he's going to share with you. Dictated in the most meandering tones imaginable.]

You know how a piece of buttered toast always lands buttered side down? It's really annoying because you can't eat it after that, not even if you use the three second rule because the butter has picked up whatever gross stuff is on the floor so you end up with buttered toast, with extra lint and maybe a dead bug. ...Ew.

ANYWAY. That got me thinking, cats. Not that you get cats attached to your buttered toast because that's just weird. But they always land on their feet, right? They do that weird spine-bending thing and just land perfectly.

So. If you strapped a piece of toast on the back of a cat, butter side up, and just...dropped it. What would happen?

[Yes, this is what he has dedicated his evening to]

Comments

[wilder]

[...............]

[Okay so he's been avoiding social interaction, but this was so absurd he speaks before really thinking]

You'd have a pissed off cat, that's what.

[whichwayyoulean]

[Oh hey it's you! And you're not dead. He understand the wanting to be alone thing, so he won't bring that up. See what a GOOD FRIEND he is?]

And probably the need to get a tetanus injection. But still, it could have interesting effects.

[zeke_developer]

Y'know, there's a paradox there, I think. Like...an anti-gravity cat or something.

[Now you've got him thinking about that. Maybe seeing if he can borrow someone's cat for an experiment in anti-gravity.]

[whichwayyoulean]

[This is why he likes you, Huey. You GET this]

Exactly. And with that in mind, well hey a few calculations and you could make a mode of transport that just hovers in the air. Self-sustaining power. [LOOK LORAX IT'S GOOD TO THE ENVIRONMENT]

[heal_theworld]

...I'm pretty sure the cat would land on its feet. Or you would kill it. Why would you even be so mean to a cat like that?

[whichwayyoulean]

What? No. I wasn't being mean to the cat! It's not like I'd...drop it off a tall building or anything.

[pierrotism]

[you know most nerds might think you're being stupid and ignore this but...]

Hmmm... Toast probably lands buttered side down because that side weighs more thanks to the butter. I don't know what the deal with cats is, but I bet the cat's weight can overcome that of the toast, so it can do its thing and land on its feet without worry.

[whichwayyoulean]

[He has the BEST nerd buddies]

But the laws of fate say the toast has to land butter side down, right?

dictated;

[3_butterflies]

You shouldn't drop kitties!

[clearly the big issue here]

forever!

[whichwayyoulean]

But they land on their feet! That's the point. And I wouldn't drop it from anything high.

[You people worrying over the cat when there's SCIENCE to be done, god :/]

[ino]

... Seriously? [LMFAO] You are really bored.

[whichwayyoulean]

It's a quiet day okay. I work with what I've got.

dictated 4ever!!

[amiable]

Dami still doesn't land on his four feet...

aww yis

[whichwayyoulean]

...Really? Is something wrong with him?

[akito]

I think the cat would try to get the toast off of it...

Maybe that would make it not land on it's feet? Maybe on its side..?

[whichwayyoulean]

But does toast ever fall on it's side? Nope. Eventually, it would have to land one way or the other.

Hephaestus filter

[craggyfaced]

...I did warn you.

forever!

[whichwayyoulean]

Oh the follies of being in the cool gang. I learned them well.

[not_mafia]

I-I'd imagine you'd have an angry cat with toast on its back...

[whichwayyoulean]

Or something that HOVERS.

Seriously where is the imagination in this castle?

[sawadeertoday]

Interesting experiment. [ Not quite to her caliber, as it's not endangering humans, but cats was close enough. ]

Are you going to try it?

[whichwayyoulean]

I don't know. I don't know anyone who owns a cat.

Hephaestus Filter to End!

[ectobabble]

Gosh, I hope we didn't make the Doom Vaccuum, I'd forgotten about that. ... But if you can't find the guitar, I could help you make another one.

As for the cat, there've been some speculative theories about that that suggest you'd probably get a self-sustaining hovering cat. Lot of possibilities for energy there, even if it's completely hypothetical and probably physically impossible to actually make happen.

[whichwayyoulean]

The one I took from the music room is still here. But the one I made in camp was cool. Oh well, I guess if it's vaccuuming doom, it's vaccuuming doom.

See, that's what I was thinking. It's be clean energy, right? No harm to the environment at all. I mean, obviously, you'd have to work up from toasted cats, but it's a good starting block.

[thehistorian]

The cat would get the toast off, mid-air, and then promptly cough up a hairball in your shoes.

[whichwayyoulean]

...

Welp, I've got to give you points for imagination.

[Hephaestus Filter]

[alaspooryork]

[Now that Delta's returned to his normal form, he's much more echoing. The voice--and that disapproving tone--are the same, however.]

Indeed. It oculd be far more dangerous here in the castle, as the limits to supplies one can wish for are far less than what one can simply find in a summer camp.

Additionally, if you have access to the CastleNet, I would like to direct you to an informational video on the subject of attaching objects to cats.

forever!

[whichwayyoulean]

[Even with the echo, he recognises that tone. Sorry he peer-pressured you dude!]

Especially when you have guys who like explosions and fire.

[There is silence for a while, while he sets up his castlenet, and then there's laughing. So much laughing]

Wow. That's...really special.

[fatherandsun]

I suppose you would have cat on your toast, including its hair and its dander. It wouldn't make your meal edible in the slightest.

[Konzen's never seen a cat and he has no idea what buttery toast is, but he's read about the former and can guess from the Once-ler's tale that toast and butter are foods.]

[whichwayyoulean]

...I wasn't planning on eating the toast after attaching it to the cat.

[formercheerio]

Except then you'd have cat hair on your toast.

[whichwayyoulean]

Once you've attached a cat to your toast you don't really want to eat it.

[arealwoman]

Why would you want to do that?

[whichwayyoulean]

For science, why else?

[billiardsplz]

Well the cat would probably claw off your face so you wouldn't be able to see the results.

[whichwayyoulean]

What is it with everyone and descending into violence?