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But I don’t butter toast. Does this mean my toast will defy the laws of gravity and never land on the ground?
This will only happen if you butter the toast, then strap said toast onto the back of a kitteh butter side up. Then pick the kitteh up and drop it from a height of at least four feet. due to the nature of both the buttered toast and the kitteh, they will stop in mid air and bigin to spin at high speeds as both the kitteh and the buttered toast will fight to land in its natural position. i.e. the kitteh on its feet, and the buttered toast butter side down.
Won’t that get butter all over your kitty?
Yes, you’ll get butter all over your hovering kitty.
Butter side UP, guys. Read the recipe.
Can I try dropping my toast-kitteh into a box that contains a Geiger Counter, a tiny bit of radioactive substance that decays every hour yet is so small that it’s just as likely that it won’t decay, some hydrocyanic acid, a device that will hit the flask of acid if the substance decays?
Then trap it in that box?
and remember:Schrodinger’s hovering cat is not dead.
You’re pro.
I salute your name.
bob loblaw’s law blog
truth…
Myth Busted!
You should really watch Mythbusters… They proved that just like flipping a coin, it lands on one side or the other about 50% of the time.
*graph fail*
+1
Actually, they proved it’s slightly more likely to fall butter side up – when you press down on the toast to spread the butter, it creates a slight curve in the toast, which then prefers to fall with the depression facing the ground – butter side up. The harder you spread your butter, the more often it will land butter side up.
Actually it is more likely to land butter side down, but only due to the way it will fall. Seeing as most tables are roughly 1m high, and most people will put the toast on their table butter side up (you don’t want to get butter on the table) then when a piece of toast is knocked off of a table, it will only have enough time to perform one revolution before it hits the ground. So unless you’re some sort of giant who eats their toast on a 2m high table, it will land butter side down more often.
You don’t get MythBusters on tv where you live, do you?
Actually, I think that was a pretty accurate summary of the show. From table height with a human analog it landed butter side down an overwhelming amount of the time.
The floating due to concave spreading surface only came about when they were dropping toast from the roof, which is not an accurate test of my breakfast, but it very well could be for yours.
I saw that episode too. I approve.
I didn’t see the Mythbusters episode, but I read an article in a science magazine a few years ago, that also concluded that it was most likely to fall butter-side down … for the same reasons Graveson said.
You can do this experiment easily, with something like a book (put an elastic band around it to stop the pages opening.) Push it to the edge of the table, it falls, it revolves about 180 degees before hitting the ground.,
It happens because of what Greveson and BreenLolz said.
Mythbusters’ “science” is an absolute joke 99% of the time, please stop citing them as though they are scientifically sound.
Why should we drop toast anyway? Let’s keep it off the ground, fellas.
lawl toast fysics.
I guess Graph Jam isn’t getting many good submissions lately.
So true…
This doesnt even make sense. It’s providing the likelihood that either side is most likely to hit. Unless the submitter is talking about different types of bread or something, this is a bit of a fail.
ok first off.. GREAT screen name.. secondly, to answer your question, I don’t have the time to make them, just the time to comment on them.
I have submitted twice, but they both sucked, and I wasn’t surprised that they didn’t make the front page. I still think one of them was better than this turd.
Myth busted.
That sounds like a really bad and disgusting fanfiction.
**Shiver***
umm no sorry.. thats really gross.. you can leave now.. and never come back again…
OK now your just showing what a sick person you are…
Jokes are funny.. you are not.
remember the time we performed a “three-way around the world” in that abandoned hotel room? man, that was a good time. kate sure knows how to lick!
Jamie, I’ve always wondered what was REALLY under your beret…
No need. It’s a second penis =/
Mostly likely time for you to drop your toast: when you’re really hungry, you don’t have time to make more, and the dog which already snarfed down his chow is right there by your feet.
What would be better is to plot the probability of toast falling buttered side down in relation to the cost of the rug. Also we need to see what happens when you tie a slice of buttered toast onto a cat’s back and you drop him over an expensive carpet.
No, the probability of toast falling buttered side down in relation to the cost of the rug would be just like the other 6,000 graphs on this site that show Murphy’s Law. Lame.
And enough with the cat crap. Cats have got to be the stupidest meme in the history of the internet.
no good.
this myth has been busted.
PLEASE LOOK AT ALL THE POSTS BEFORE POSTING! THE MYTHBUSTERS THREAD HAS BEEN MADE A MILLION TIMES!
Unless you tie it to the back of a cat.
Just lighten up… This graph is just for fun, as are all the graphs are. OF COURSE it’s false, give me one graph on here that’s TRUE. It’s just for you to laugh at and say ’so true’.
“OF COURSE it’s false, give me one graph on here that’s TRUE. It’s just for you to laugh at and say ’so true’.”
Am I the only one who sees the contradiction in that statement?
In Psychology this is called “illusory correlation.”
The person selectively focuses on and exaggerates the events that confirm their belief while ignoring and downplaying the events that contradict them.
Thus you -see- what you -want- to see.
Anyone who studies psychology has issues.
How so?
they’re like people who get phd’s in philosophy. no one cares about what they have to say unless they are on the bed in the phsychologists office
Everyone has issues.. so I guess you are right.. but singling out one major makes your statement seem bias.. Art major??
LOL, “Art major?” There’s a joke if I’ve ever heard one. Talk about a complete waste of time and money. If you’re into art, great for you. But don’t go spend four years in college to learn how to use watercolors. Try things out for yourself and in the process develop your own style and find out what you like to paint. Art is not something you should be taught.
You see what you want to see
and with the “illusory correlation” that is the method of making every graph. You do that and people laugh because exageration is funny
Well wait, what’s the probability of it landing balanced on its crust?
I think you have a better chance of getting your winning lottery ticket struck by lightning during a lunar eclipse with a blue moon.
What about being struck by thunder?
isnt everything struck by thunder since thunder is a sound wave?
No, I tend to change my clothes often and shower to prevent that happening.
I never drop my toast but if I did I bet it would land butter side up. You’re all wusses.
Any woman want a real man, look me up.
who uses the word “wusses” anymore (besides first graders)
That’s his catch phrase. He thinks it makes him hot.
oh like Paris Hilton.. Oh god like me need more versions of her roaming around..
People, for crying out loud–stop with all of the Adam and Jamie fanlove already. (Before you ask, I only know their names because my husband watches the show.) Can’t you tell a Murphy’s Law graph when you see one? Sheesh. This is an old fashioned win.
and thus, toast is not fugitive of murphy’s law…
Riddle me this: this is just hypothetical, but let’s say it were absolutely true that toast always lands butter side down AND that cats always land on their feet. Now, what if someone were to tie a piece of toast, butter side up, to the back of a cat. What would happen if you dropped the cat?
(Check Captain Obvious’ post up top of the page.)
Hmm. Someone beat me to it.
I think I’m going to start reading all of the posts on a graph before I post….
finally. There have been a million repeat threads
not just from you, of course.
It would create a nuclear explosion
you could utilize the rotating body as a power source by strapping magnets to the cat and making a tube of wire around it.
This was busted my Mythbusters. It’s about 50/50 percent. Just FYI.
this thread about mythbusters “disproving” it has been made several times. And although the true probability of a flat object landing is that it lands on either side, most toast is dropped from a height the only allows one rotation until it lands. And since toast is usually placed on a plate butter side up, it makes one rotation after it falls and lands butter side down on the floor.
And mythbusters is not the best source for information of most nature. Some myths are true in certain circumstances that mythbusters deosnt take into account.
This graph gets an F for creativity.
And an A for pessimism. Which is actually a failure. You should probably go kill yourself.
No, you guys just put butter on the wrong side. If you put it on the right side, it won’t land like that!
all of you who think this isnt funny have never had a piece of toast fall of the plate and land butter side down, even though it happens ALL THE TIME!
Purple and gold graph? Lakers fan, eh?
Actually, pennies have a tiniest bit of a higher chance to land heads-down.
Actually, penises have a tiniest bit of a higher chance to land heads-down.
Oops, nesting fail. Also, I already regret that post.
What.