im currently programming icbm trajectorys, calculating Pi to 400 billion, sub contracting to NASA,organising the entire world's air traffic control and the spare cycles are being used to discover why toast always lands butter side down.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="verdana">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Psycho Bob: ...and the spare cycles are being used to discover why toast always lands butter side down.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Not that there is a law of nature specifically dedicated to buttered toast. Rather, it's a matter of the height of the typical breakfast table, coupled with the fact that when the toast is on the table, it is assuredly butter-side-up. As the toast slides across the edge of the table, with part of the toast hanging off the table, gravity causes the toast to start to rotate. Thus, when the toast falls, it is rotating. For a typical breakfast table, there is just enough fall time for the toast to complete one half a revolution before it hits the deck. The result: the toast lands butter-side-down. That's just off the top of my head.
