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This comes from people who think animal are stupid.
So they have to make grand theory to admit they were wrong.
The gist is, the cat shake the box and can detect whether there is something lose and moving inside by how the box make noise / behave differently from a solid object.
But they name it with the much more pompous name of "cats understand the law of physics"
Common guys, cats are predator, of course they know all about hiding!
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Super Lloyd wrote: cats are predator, of course they know all about hiding!
Ours doesn't!
It's normally fairly obvious where he is hiding, because he forgets to cover his tail... 
Mind you, it doesn't seem to hurt him as a hunter, he brings home dead-or-alive prey pretty much every day.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Haha, just like kids! 
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Your kids bring home rats, mice, moles, and dead birds? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Err... I was referring the visible tail when they hide...
Young kids usually only hide their face when they are hiding!
Or were you taunting me?! haha! 
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It's the taunting one! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Your kids bring home rats, mice, moles, and dead birds?
Yes it's called supper.
I'll get my hat
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Corporal Agarn wrote:
I'll get my hat
Why? Are you going to pull a rabbit out of it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Na, just too hot for a coat.  Besides I need a hat to keep the glare down. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Corporal Agarn wrote: Yes it's called supper.
Cue up 'Dueling Banjos'....
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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aaryan42 wrote: Sounds like a good way to swindle research funds.
More likely just, "Science reporter doesn't really understand the paper, writes headline to catch attention."
You can never trust headline writers. Or blurb writers. They're all shifty.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You can never trust headline writers.
+5 although that's not entirely fair.
Most newspapers are trustworthy sources, staffed by dedicated professionals
The problem is the 83 yotta Interweb "news" sites that are staffed with semi-literate cretins who don't know what the word "journalism" means, let alone "Physics", and probably "cat".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Cats understand how to manipulate people in a way that we give them shelter and food; let them sit on us; let them in, then out, then in, then out again; let them wreck our furniture and won't even get mad... Ancient Egypt worshiped them. And now they have taken over the Internet.
Cats understand way more than just physics, they might be aliens with an intellect vastly superior than our own!
You think the Illuminati or lizards rule the world? Hell no, it's cats!
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You make a convincing argument there. Does tinfoil protect against cats?
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You learn something new every day.
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Cats are alien beings that telepathically send their observations back to their home world, Meow. When they stare at things longer, they're actually sending longer messages, along the lines of "humans keep proving what idiots they are."
Marc
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I finished watching a random Monty Python video just prior to reading this thread, so naturally I read all these comments in the various voices of the Python troupe. It was extraordinarily entertaining, what with all the non-sequiters and whatnot.
"That's not a cat license. That's a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed off and 'cat' written in crayon."
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Dog: man's best friend
Man: cat's best friend
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Because without some grasp of physics there's no way for cats to make the predictions they do. Duh.
Quote: Sounds like a good way to swindle research funds.
Only to someone who knows nothing about the field science and how and why research is done.
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It's not swindling at all. It shows that cats have a natural intuition about how things work. You don't think much of it because it's absolutely normal for us humans to have it. Not so much for animals though.
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As if two jumbo pythons in toilets in ten days were not enough:Quote: Now it has become a trend For reptile house human Gus is playing. But to do this was to see the Cavaliers. When a Facebook user named "Attanai Thaiyuanwong" share video clips. And the image of a huge money maker. Climbing wall near the door. The size must say that watching big advantage. DIY Roller deadliest heavy
YouTube Video: [^]. Thai "translated" by Google.
Reportage in Coconuts.co including clear photograph, and English translation of some of the dialog in the video: [^].
Varanus Salvator. While the venom of these critters would (usually) not be fatal to adult humans, the bite would almost certainly carry a whopping load of bad-ass bacteria.
The Thai word for this beast is one syllable, and is considered a very "impolite" word (I'll spare you further exegesis); the word is so "unlucky" that people instead substitute a phrase meaning "silver and gold." Very unlucky to even see one of these, and even more unlucky to kill one. Said with the wrong tone, in the wrong context, to a woman, the word could get something a man considers quite valuable cut off.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 15-Jun-16 11:02am.
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That's just wong.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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If you remove the god-awful calibri from your system, visio stops working -- and putting the god-awful calibri back doesn't make it work again.
Thank Apollo for system restore.
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