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Loremaster wrote:It's in a quantum superposition of states - both half-empty and half-full. It will become either when an observer steps in and glances at the glass.

Schroedinger's Glass of Milk.
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But if it's cat that's the observer, then odds are it'll soon be more than half-empty....
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Well done, Lore!!

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Stonemaybe wrote:
Loremaster wrote:It's in a quantum superposition of states - both half-empty and half-full. It will become either when an observer steps in and glances at the glass.

Schroedinger's Glass of Milk.
:D

But if it's cat that's the observer, then odds are it'll soon be more than half-empty....
Can a dead cat see, not mention drink a half-empty glass of water?
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Can a dead cat see, not mention drink a half-empty glass of water?
Come on Cag! Pay attention!

We're talking milk now, water was a full two fluids ago! (edit: and the glass may well be half full)
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Goodness knows, our cats show enough interest in any random half-empty water glass I happen to leave on the coffee table... Oh! Wait! We've moved on to milk! Sorry....
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Sorry. But the cat is dead, right?
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Cagliostro wrote:Sorry. But the cat is dead, right?
Define 'dead'



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In a state that is neither alive or undead. Or in a maybe state.

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Can a dead cat drink a half full/empty glass of milk if there is no-one there to observe? Would the glass be half-full to a live cat but half-empty to a dead one?

LORE: What have you done to my brain?????????
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Stonemaybe wrote:Can a dead cat drink a half full/empty glass of milk if there is no-one there to observe? Would the glass be half-full to a live cat but half-empty to a dead one?

LORE: What have you done to my brain?????????
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Menolly wrote:
Stonemaybe wrote:Can a dead cat drink a half full/empty glass of milk if there is no-one there to observe? Would the glass be half-full to a live cat but half-empty to a dead one?

LORE: What have you done to my brain?????????
"The Reality Tests"

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Oh no! No way I'm reading that! My grasp of reality is just fine at the moment, excepting a glass of milk kink.
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Stonemaybe wrote:Can a dead cat drink a half full/empty glass of milk if there is no-one there to observe? Would the glass be half-full to a live cat but half-empty to a dead one?

LORE: What have you done to my brain?????????

What is the sound of a cat in a box with poison?



















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Cagliostro wrote:In a state that is neither alive or undead. Or in a maybe state.

I could start quoting the Parrot Sketch if you'd like...
I wouldn't mind, but I don't know about anyone else here...
Stonemaybe wrote:Can a dead cat drink a half full/empty glass of milk if there is no-one there to observe? Would the glass be half-full to a live cat but half-empty to a dead one?
If no one was there to observe it except the cat, wouldn't the glass remain half full/empty and the cat remain dead/alive in perpetual superposition? Who said the cat was dead? Cag? If no one's there to observe it, how do you know its dead?
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Stonemaybe wrote:Can a dead cat drink a half full/empty glass of milk if there is no-one there to observe? Would the glass be half-full to a live cat but half-empty to a dead one?
If no one was there to observe it except the cat, wouldn't the glass remain half full/empty and the cat remain dead/alive in perpetual superposition? Who said the cat was dead? Cag? If no one's there to observe it, how do you know its dead?
For this, I'm paying multiple thousands of dollars per year... :roll:

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aliantha wrote:
magickmaker17 wrote:
Stonemaybe wrote:Can a dead cat drink a half full/empty glass of milk if there is no-one there to observe? Would the glass be half-full to a live cat but half-empty to a dead one?
If no one was there to observe it except the cat, wouldn't the glass remain half full/empty and the cat remain dead/alive in perpetual superposition? Who said the cat was dead? Cag? If no one's there to observe it, how do you know its dead?
For this, I'm paying multiple thousands of dollars per year... :roll:
hey, whats that supposed to mean?! ;)

on another note, why does the cat have to be dead at all? Whats wrong with a living cat? Cag, did you feed it some of that distilled chicken crap?
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magickmaker17 wrote:
aliantha wrote:
magickmaker17 wrote:If no one was there to observe it except the cat, wouldn't the glass remain half full/empty and the cat remain dead/alive in perpetual superposition? Who said the cat was dead? Cag? If no one's there to observe it, how do you know its dead?
For this, I'm paying multiple thousands of dollars per year... :roll:
hey, whats that supposed to mean?! ;)

on another note, why does the cat have to be dead at all? Whats wrong with a living cat? Cag, did you feed it some of that distilled chicken crap?
Hey, a whole bunch of us drank that distilled chicken crap and lived! ;)

I'd just like to go on record as saying that I prefer live cats to dead ones.
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aliantha wrote:
magickmaker17 wrote:on another note, why does the cat have to be dead at all? Whats wrong with a living cat? Cag, did you feed it some of that distilled chicken crap?
Hey, a whole bunch of us drank that distilled chicken crap and lived! ;)

I'd just like to go on record as saying that I prefer live cats to dead ones.
yes, but you have somewhat more body mass than a cat does. I think if a cat had as much distilled chicken as you fools drank, it would probably just keel right over.

I prefer live cats as well.
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If a cat drank the distilled chicken, it'd go on a rampage, pushing girls down stairs and off porches willy-nilly.
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CovenantJr wrote:If a cat drank the distilled chicken, it'd go on a rampage, pushing girls down stairs and off porches willy-nilly.
are you saying you're a cat? ;)
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