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L
climber
Tiptoeing through the chilly waters of life
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Sep 25, 2017 - 08:45pm PT
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Thanks, Tami.
How are the felines (I think there were two?) in your family doing?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 25, 2017 - 11:13pm PT
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hey there,all... love seeing the cats, again...
L -- what a sweet little kitty, :)
anders -- wow, your wonderful cat is getting old, and, mine is too...
will put a pic, soon... :)
this eve...
hope to get back and share, too...
:)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Sep 26, 2017 - 12:21am PT
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L
climber
Tiptoeing through the chilly waters of life
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Sep 26, 2017 - 09:04am PT
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^^^^^ Lol!
Even kitties loves dem sheepies!
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Sep 26, 2017 - 09:20am PT
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This is Whitney the latest addition to our little family.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 26, 2017 - 07:13pm PT
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Think you know about cats? Well, think about this: are cats liquid or solid?
Don't be too quick to answer. Unless you're Ed Hartouni. This is a matter to be decided by serious physicists, not dirtbag climbers like you or me.
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS—Are cats liquid or solid? That’s the kind of question that could win a scientist an Ig Nobel Prize, a parody of the Nobel Prize that honors research that “makes people laugh, then think.” But it wasn’t with this in mind that Marc-Antoine Fardin, a physicist at Paris Diderot University, set out to find out whether house cats flow.
Fardin noticed that these furry pets can adapt to the shape of the container they sit in—think of a cat in a vase—similarly to what fluids such as water do. So he used the principles of rheology, the branch of physics that deals with the deformation of matter, to calculate cats’ relaxation time, or the time it takes for them to take up the space of a vase or bathroom sink.
The conclusion? Cats can be either liquid or solid, depending on the circumstances, Fardin reported in the Rheology Bulletin in 2014. (The awards don’t recognize the strangest research of the year, but strange research in general.) A cat in a small box will behave like a fluid, filling up all the space, but a cat in a bathtub full of water will try to minimize its contact with it and behave very much like a solid. For this achievement, Fardin was awarded this year’s Ig Nobel Physics Prize before an audience of more than 1000 people, including genuine Nobel laureates, during a ceremony here at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre.
If you want to know more about this (and about tampons that play music) check out: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/cats-behave-liquids-tampons-play-music-and-other-advances-honored-ig-nobel-prizes?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2017-09-15&et_rid=293236382&et_cid=1548111
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Heidi & I got home last week from 4 days in Dubrovnik & a week of sailing with friends off the coast of Croatia. We saw a lot of happy cats. There was an occasional dog, but it appears that cats are well-respected & may well be in charge, since everywhere we traveled, things were clean, well-kept, & folks were polite. That's the way cats like it, you know.
Cat central was the little port town of Zaklopatica on the island of Lastovo. We saw & petted several friendly cats there.
Our Dubrovnik guide Maria & one of her two cats.
Dubrovnik cats appear to be in charge.
Cat-worship. A very progressive religion.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, fritz... thanks for the fun cat notes... and pics...
here's mine, now...
in order, of when i adopted them...
bobby bob, passed on, of old age:
and, these were from thrift store:
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Fritz
You sure it wasn't a purrgressive religion????
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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SteveW! Re your question/comment!
You sure it wasn't a purrgressive religion????
There was some purring going on, but I try not to discuss religion with Euro-cats.
This Dubrovnik cat had a very-high comfort level, & we could easily hear it purring from behind its secure fence.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say mike. ...
:)
edit:
say, fritz... neat little calico... my brother had one, similar,
and she eventually went to live at my moms...
we loved here there, (he had moved south, then) and she got
to be very very old...
:)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 28, 2017 - 12:39pm PT
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Nov 30, 2017 - 12:20pm PT
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DMT! Considering those are outside cats, they look remarkably handsome & good. Nice job of managing from a distance.
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Mei
Trad climber
mxi2000.net
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Nov 30, 2017 - 12:55pm PT
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Let's see if .gif animations can show up here.
The simple joy a plain string can bring to a cat. This is Mango.
I hope we all can find our own sand dish. It certainly brings Roxy endless happiness.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Nov 30, 2017 - 06:07pm PT
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Sophie told me to let her know when Spring arrives.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Released into general population, Idaho
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Nov 30, 2017 - 06:41pm PT
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Gizmo digs his extra thumbs.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Sophie still waiting for Spring
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Mei
Trad climber
mxi2000.net
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Ahahaha...lovely photos and commentary above!
Here we the spoiled trio are enjoying a lazy Friday afternoon after having explored outside for a few hours.
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