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Date:    Mar  1 13:47
From:    firebird
Subject: Scientific Theory Contest Results
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The contest is to see who can come up with the wackiest scientific theory.
These are responses to a contest sponsored by OMNI magazine:

Grand Prize Winner:

When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is
dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down.  I propose
to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat
 the two will hover,
spinning inches above the ground.  With a giant buttered cat array, a
high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.

Runners-up:

If an infinite number of rednecks riding in an infinite number of pickup
trucks fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number of
highway signs, they will eventually produce all the worlds great literary
works in Braille.

Why yawning is contagious:  You yawn to equalize the pressure on your
eardrums.  This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other
people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out.

Communist China is technologically underdeveloped because they have no
alphabet and therefore cannot use acronyms to communicate ideas at a
faster rate.

The earth may spin faster on its axis due to deforestation. Just as a
figure skater's rate of spin increases when the arms are brought in close
to the body, the cutting of tall trees may cause our planet to spin

dangerously fast.

Honorable Mentions:

Birds take off at sunrise.  On the opposite side of the world, they are
landing at sunset.  This causes the earth to spin on its axis. The reason
hot-rod owners raise the backs of their cars is that it's easier to go
faster when you're always going downhill.

The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If
omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks"
his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his
car and invest in "orl wells."


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