So why do my cats dive in front of mine so frequently!?
Edit: 36 feet, not 36 inches XD
Square-cube law, mate. Cats are far stronger per gram than us. It would be more like us living with a 3 meter orc that weighed 500kg. Not great, but not terrible. I’ll run the numbers and get back to you.
My cat is always trying to trip me. Then again, she looks and acts like one of her parents was an African wildcat straight from the savanna. Even when she’s being purry and cuddly laying in my nook, she keeps trying to lovingly bite my face off and when I play with her, she does backflips several feet into the air trying to catch whatever toy I’m animating for her. Little creature is half wild!
You’re trying to apply logic to creatures who possess none. They know two things in this scenario; 1, they are faster than you. 2, they are faster than you. They are not thinking creatures. Accept them for their stochasticity.
Edit: it makes me sad that I upset at least 2 people with this bit so quickly.
Hum, my orange braincell got hit by a car, pelvis shattered, and pieced together and bandaged up in another room, wanted to get to his people having dinner. So he used the wall as support to get to us. They are thinking beings with problem-solving capabilities.
This legit hurt to read. Hope your orange homie makes it out the other side.
Eh, was years ago. He’s healthy and happy.
They are being careful. They’re just so much more agile than you.
Uh mine gets kicked accidentally at least once a day despite me trying to be careful. She is orange, though. She gets so excited for food that shin-headbutts slow down the food-getting process by 3/4ths.
That sounds like my orange, and can confirm, he is an idiot.
She is orange, though.
Because the cats are strong enough to rip a few holes in that being. Not strong enough to lift, but enough to shrug off any accidents.
This is why my chickens terrify me. They used to be 25 feet tall, just a handful of dozens of million years ago.
Fucking murder machines.
What is 36 feet in (centi)meters?
divide by 3.281
About 10 cm?
36 ft / 3.281 = 10.97 meters
About 11 meters.
" inches - two syllables ’ feet - one syllable
It’s not your home.
It’s the cat’s home.
You are its servant and caretaker, and it is training you.
36" tall, 2-ton creature
3 feet tall, 4000 pounds?
op is dense fella
He’s a cheese wheel!
You remember the song “George Washington, George Washington 3 feet tall and 4000 pounds”
George Washington by Brad Neely.
Washington, Washington. six-foot-eight, weighs a fucking ton (VIEWER WARNING: He’ll save children, but not the British children.)
Also later in the song:
- “six-foot-twenty, fucking killing for fun”,
- “12 stories high, made of radiation”
He’ll save the children just not the British children
They called 'em the Lead Pancake in high school.
Girthy.
Maybe some sort of clonal shrub, like an aspen but shorter? XD
Thanks for the correction!
Look, look. Look, this is what I was asked to build. Eighteen inches. Right here, it specifies eighteen inches. I was given this napkin, I mean…
Someone here has dated that person. You KNOW they have…
They might like De La Soul
Some kind of short legged quadruped? Low rider bull?
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At first yes. But then you’d be zipping around it because it is soooo slooooow
Unless you’re my geriatric dog, in which case, you refuse to move no matter what the huge animal near you is doing, and just give them a hurt look when they walk into you.
How dare you hurt that poor sweet baby! Everyone knows that hallways, door frames, and kitchens are made for lounging!
Haha that Username brings me back
The was a corgi my friends family had, a former show dog, he would intentionally lay behind someone who is standing in a hallway or other passage. He knew he would get tripped over, because he also knew he’d get affection and apology cuddles after.
the Force is strong with this one
I don’t think my cat knows that he’s faster than me, he is very dumb XD
He just cannot comprehend your lack of agility and reflexes.
I guess “serious injury from stumbling on level ground” isn’t something cats really have to worry about XD
I once stepped directly in the middle of my cats back walking down stairs. Instead of putting my weight down I fell backward, landing on my elbow a couple stairs down. All my weight. It took months to be able to lean on my elbow without pain. Pretty sure it was fractured.
Mine also try to kill me on the stairs. As soon as I start to walk up, they run up a few stairs ahead of me and then stop like assholes. Especially in the dark. Thankfully they don’t hang out on the stairs at other times so I know its going to happen because I hear them.
I’ve started walking up them very slowly, so now they continue the game in the hallways and are guaranteed to get kicked at least once, at which point I say “by now you know I can’t see in the dark, you deserved that.” Rather than rewarding them with apology attention.
As if the cats don’t enjoy your disdain.
Your cat will respect that, once she gets over being pissed at your not noticing her camouflaged on the stair. Because how dare you.
Did you get it checked out by a doctor?
Im in America. No.
Shithole country
Cats are reeeal dumb animals, but people think they are smart because they are pretty.
The fact that they understand dignity hides the fact that they din’t understand much in general
ha, great point
They are relatively smart, but they think like cats not like people and people love to anthromorphize their pets.
Thanks, i guess…
Housecats, not khajit. Y’all are smarter and uglier before Skyrim at least
Some say Alfiqs only live Elsweyr yet M’aiq has held many of conversations with Alfiq when no one is looking.
Mayhaps Alfiq have nothing to say to you?
If smart means ‘thinks like a human’ then I guess so…
here, smart means “aware enough to not run under a titan’s feet”, a test cats fail to meet regularly.
they’re oblivious little derps
I dunno, any time I watch a movie with giants or giant creatures, people are innevitably running around by their feet. I don’t think humans are that smart either.
humams are terrible in the decision-making department, but we do steadfastly avoid being underfoot lephants as much as possible.
wide berth.
Elephants literally kill more people than almost any other animal.
With dumb cats lining up for the privilege. coooool trivia!
I’ll take that point. But all in all I wouldn’t call cats dumb. There are some dumb specimen, for sure, but that goes for all beings. And this comes back to my initial point: Cats have some unique “smart” skills, they just don’t compute in the same way as we humans do. I’d put cats in the smart … lets say 10% of all creatures
wow, 10%. cats are so unaware i think I could give them top 60%.
Killer whales, primates, crows, plenty of animals seem to demonstrate problem solving skills, true communication, situational awareness. cats do not. they seem to operate solely on instinct and any deviation completely flummoxes system.
They’re good at stalking and being pretty, but that’s about it.
But there’s no way in heckadoo cats are anywhere near the top 10% smartest animals. they tricked ya by looking sleeeek.
I think it’s the toxoplasmosis talking
it has to be.
I think you might be understimating how many animal species there are. Birds and mammals make up a measly 1% of those. Soo even if we take all mammals and birds, cats are even in the top 1%, I was being very generous ;)
or you are mixing up aesthetics and instinct with intelligence. you are being poop-duped by the kitkats. toxoplasmosed.
… Sure.
You’re whiffing on the point. That’s not usual behavior for stray or wild cats, it’s a specialised behavior that involves people and other animals they feel are ‘safe.’ Not an intelligence issue.
whiff
whiff because you failed to provide a “/s” tag?
Sure, buddy.
wwwwwwwhiff
That “omission” is deliberate.
Your literal first comment is:
Cats are reeeal dumb animals, but people think they are smart because they are pretty.
You’re saying that’s meant sarcastically, and everyone reading is supposed to automagically know that you’re being facetious? Do you find yourself regularly surrounded by mind-readers…?
That’s what He said.
No no. Karmalee was very pretty. Like, model cat.
Dumb as hell. Pretty, but, if she were a human, she’d be a blonde valley girl from the 1980s. The kind the movie Clueless made fun of.
Humans are to cats as cars are to humans: similar difference in weight and size, similar (if not greater) danger—but we walk around them because we’re used to them and we think we can predict them well enough. And because we’re often going to the same places.
But cars freak me out…
The only reason I walk around them is because I have to, not because I want to
Finally, a good answer!
- 36 inches is about the height of a human 2 year old.
- Assuming average weight of a 2 year old is 30lbs.
- Assuming average body mass density is the same as water (1g/cm^3 ).
Then average volume of a 2 year old is:
(30lbs * 453.5924g/lbs) * cm^3 /1g = 13607.772cm^3
- Assuming volume is constant, but weight increased to 2 US tons
Then final creature density is:
(2 * 2000lbs * 453.5924g/lbs) / 13607.772cm^3 = 133.333…g/cm^3
That is about 6 times denser than the heaviest measured element and a little over half the density of the solar core.
I sincerely hope my math is right, but this is a shitpost and I didn’t have paper so :shrug_emoji_1:
Knowledge is being able to do the math.
Wisdom is realizing OP made a mistake with his numbers
36’ is 36 feet
You’re right.
When I started writing the comment there were 0 replies and the title read 36".
When I posted what was ultimately the second comment the title still read 36".
They updated it after