Hey! I saw a TV program once about why the toast lands butter-side down. It's because it falls from a table. On the table it's butter-side up. Shove it off the table; it tips and starts to spin. It falls through 180 degrees of spin or so before it lands on the floor. If you shove buttered toast off a 6-foot stepladder, they demonstrated, it has enough time to fall through a 360 degree spin and land butter-side up again.
Do they still have TV like that anymore?
Hey! I saw a TV program once about why the toast lands butter-side down. It's because it falls from a table. On the table it's butter-side up. Shove it off the table; it tips and starts to spin. It falls through 180 degrees of spin or so before it lands on the floor. If you shove buttered toast off a 6-foot stepladder, they demonstrated, it has enough time to fall through a 360 degree spin and land butter-side up again. Do they still have TV like that anymore?
posted by lumpley 19 years ago
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