Someone suggested using an array of buttered cats to levitate a
high-speed train (New Scientist, as I recall)

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> Subject:      Cat-toast [OT]
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> In a message dated 97-12-23 01:24:08 EST, you write:
>
> << Dean.
>
>  (-;     If you tied a piece of buttered toast to the back
>          of a cat and dropped it from a (small) height,
>          wonder what would happen?
>
>  ;-)
>   >>
>
> They would rotate at a high rate of speed just above the ground.
> I'm not making this up.........I read it on the internet......it must
> be true.
>
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