http://www.butteredwaffles.com/waffles/lolcat-fridays1 Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:26:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.butteredwaffles.com/waffles/lolcat-fridays1/comment-page-1#comment-7698 Marques Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:12:11 +0000 http://www.butteredwaffles.com/?p=41#comment-7698 upr3ph633ubwa upr3ph633ubwa

]]> http://www.butteredwaffles.com/waffles/lolcat-fridays1/comment-page-1#comment-23 Butter Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:57:01 +0000 http://www.butteredwaffles.com/?p=41#comment-23 Now see, I would just take from it that the cat is representative of the abysmal scientific literacy in this country, in that she or he falls prey to the fallacy that only big, heavy objects have grabity fields. Not so! <i>Every</i> bit of matter attracts every other bit of matter grabitationally, wif a forse pruporshunal to teh produkt of der massus and inversly pruporshunal to teh distans tween dem skwaerd. It's just that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant" rel="nofollow">constant of proportionality</a> is so tiny that only with huge masses (e.g., that of a planet) or at very close distances is the effect noticeable. Grabity is a very, <i>very</i> weak force. Now see, I would just take from it that the cat is representative of the abysmal scientific literacy in this country, in that she or he falls prey to the fallacy that only big, heavy objects have grabity fields. Not so! Every bit of matter attracts every other bit of matter grabitationally, wif a forse pruporshunal to teh produkt of der massus and inversly pruporshunal to teh distans tween dem skwaerd. It’s just that the constant of proportionality is so tiny that only with huge masses (e.g., that of a planet) or at very close distances is the effect noticeable. Grabity is a very, very weak force.

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