Given that the toast thing is mostly random chance
and the cat thing is it consciously righting itself whilst in freefall to land on its feet, I'll go with "cat wins". There is a school of "thought" that insists the toast/cat combination will stop millimetres from the ground and rotate rapidly and perpetually, however they are know-nothing pricks.

The falling tree thing isn't a serious question on whether or not sound ceases to operate when unwitnessed. It's really a question on how you can truly be sure that you know what it sounds like at all. We trust our senses implicitly, but the only evidence we have that they are operating truthfully (ie that the noise a falling tree makes is, in fact, making a creaking, whooshing, crashing noise) is that is always the way they have sounded. We only have our own witness evidence for this and can never have proper independent corroboration because we can never truly hear what somebody else hears. If you record it, you're still only listening to your own interpretation of the noise, you see.

You may not hear the same noise I hear, basically. Therefore, if a tree falls without me hearing it, how can I be sure it made the same sound? I can't, because all I can be sure of is that my ears are telling me that it sounds a certain way. I can never be entirely sure beyond my own conceit that this is the way it sounds at all.

Philosophy. Bunkum.
( Kroney, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:32, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Exactly
How can we explain people who claim to enjoy the sounds Oasis make?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 21 May 2013, 13:34, Reply)

the toast thing isn't random chance at all
it's to do with the average height of a table, which allows for only 1 half of a rotation before the toast hits the ground from a butter side up starting point, thus leading to a higher proportion of butter side down impacts.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 21 May 2013, 14:07, Reply)

yeah?
Well, your FACE isn't random chance, either. How'd you like that, huh? Bitch?
( Kroney, Tue 21 May 2013, 14:08, Reply)

i like it just fine

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 21 May 2013, 14:09, Reply)

Yeah? Well.....you SHOULDN'T
HAH
( Kroney, Tue 21 May 2013, 14:10, Reply)

ywah well your mumslikes it well enough

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 21 May 2013, 14:12, Reply)

I think we all know that she is not fussy.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 21 May 2013, 14:13, Reply)

i assumed it was because the buttered side is heavier?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 21 May 2013, 14:18, Reply)

its almost like you read my tedious answer
and thought that you would bore people by repeating it
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 21 May 2013, 14:23, Reply)

nah, didn't read the thread

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 21 May 2013, 14:31, Reply)