Breaking News: Cats drink more elegantly than dogs

[iHUMAN]

This was on the news last night...

It took a team of scientists 3 years to come to the conclusion that cats drink more elegantly than dogs. They came to this mind-blowing (and certainly worth of a Nobel Prize) conclusion by videotaping the pets and reviewing the footage slowmotion.

Three facking years!

A whole team of scientists!

[Osakadave]

Sounds like the Ignoble committee needs to be notified.

[iHUMAN]

Seriously, how much money do you think was spent (read wasted) on that BS??

[Iraira]

Cats are better physicists than dogs, according to a new study - at least when it comes to drinking.

A cat lapping milk strikes a delicate balance between gravity and inertia, the research finds. Unlike dogs, which use their tongues to scoop water into their mouths, a cat uses the tip of its tongue to pull water upward, closing its jaws before gravity pulls the column of liquid back toward earth.

The method requires cats to lap at just the right speed to balance the inertial force that keeps the water moving upward with the gravitational force pulling the water back down.

"Perhaps the most intriguing part of what we found was that the cats seemed to know just exactly how rapidly or how fast they should lap," study researcher Roman Stocker, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told LiveScience. "By lapping at the right time, [cats] take optimal advantage of this balance between inertia and gravity."

Stocker and his colleagues report their results online today (Nov. 11) in the journal Science.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101111/sc_livescience/studyrevealsphysicsofhowcatsdrink

1) Science has an impact factor of 28.1, which is basically in the top five for science journals.
2) Keep in mind that the most basic stuff from the article was summarized for the above Yahoo article and the new program you saw. More than likely, if a non-scientist (or even one not versed in the field) read the original article, that person wouldn't understand anything past the first paragraph. A news report explaining the physics behind mammalian mandible movement ain't going to get any air time.

[iHUMAN]

Point taken.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

This was on the news last night...

It took a team of scientists 3 years to come to the conclusion that cats drink more elegantly than dogs. They came to this mind-blowing (and certainly worth of a Nobel Prize) conclusion by videotaping the pets and reviewing the footage slowmotion.

Three facking years!

A whole team of scientists!

Well, at least this is proof that a pussy is always better to have than a bitch...

[Ketou]

Well, at least this is proof that a pussy is always better to have than a bitch...

Unless of course, your bitch likes to catch pussy for you...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Unless of course, your bitch likes to catch pussy for you...

God, you have no idea what you've just done to my lunchbreak....

[iHUMAN]

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