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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.
Can a dead cat see, not mention drink a half-empty glass of water?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.
But if it's cat that's the observer, then odds are it'll soon be more than half-empty....
Come on Cag! Pay attention!Can a dead cat see, not mention drink a half-empty glass of water?
Define 'dead'Cagliostro wrote:Sorry. But the cat is dead, right?
"The Reality Tests"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?????????
Oh no! No way I'm reading that! My grasp of reality is just fine at the moment, excepting a glass of milk kink.Menolly wrote:"The Reality Tests"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?????????
Have fun, Stone...
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?????????
I wouldn't mind, but I don't know about anyone else here...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...
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?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?
For this, I'm paying multiple thousands of dollars per year...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?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?
hey, whats that supposed to mean?!aliantha wrote:For this, I'm paying multiple thousands of dollars per year...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?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?
Hey, a whole bunch of us drank that distilled chicken crap and lived!magickmaker17 wrote:hey, whats that supposed to mean?!aliantha wrote:For this, I'm paying multiple thousands of dollars per year...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?
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?
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.aliantha wrote:Hey, a whole bunch of us drank that distilled chicken crap and lived!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?
I'd just like to go on record as saying that I prefer live cats to dead ones.
are you saying you're a cat?CovenantJr wrote:If a cat drank the distilled chicken, it'd go on a rampage, pushing girls down stairs and off porches willy-nilly.