Re: An Update on The Kitten Antigravity Project [FTSD]

Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
>Ark, with the distractability for which kittens are famous,
>only returned a recent other night to his efforts on The
>Kitten Antigravity Project, but did so with a deafening
>report once begun.
>Not content with being able to teleport his light-absorbing
>self through the emptinesses of the space between the
>galaxies as a short-cut to crossing the living room, Ark has
>added the capability, in this, his latest advance, to
>"teleport other".  

i theorize that his quality of seeming to absorb or
negate light has some relation to his ability to teleport.

>In this case, specifically, "other" was a
>hangable white plastic flower pot no longer hanging, but
>sitting abandoned on the top of Mama Refrigerator, sporting
>a long dead and dessicated frilly plant and potting soil
>long dried and worn out until it was featherweight.
>With no perceptible intermediate position, Ark teleported
>the flower pot from its initial position in the utility
>room, two meters downward, and over four meters sideways to
>its new position resting next to the wastebasket in the den,
>bypassing the kitchen in between entirely.
>Far from being smug in triumph at his accomplishment, Ark
>scampered from the destination of the pot as if all the
>demons of hell were in pursuit, yellow eyes wide, claws
>skittering on the hardwood floor, finally to come to rest
>under the smaller living room sofa.  Still, all in all, it
>was a landmark day for kitten-researcher-kind.
>I hear you scoffers, saying it is much more likely that Ark
>jumped onto Baby Refrigerator, from there jumped atop Mama
>Refrigerator, somehow became entangled in the three upright
>hanging rods of the flowerpot, fell to the floor, landing
>catlike but still entangled, sprinted through the kitchen
>past Papa Refrigerator, finally being rid of the flower pot
>at the other end of the kitchen.

did you check the kitchen floor for telltale bits
of potting medium and/or fragments of dessicated plant?

>As a scientist, however, I shave with the razor of William
>of Occam, which warns us not unnecessarily to multiply our
>suppositions, and between so complex and unlikely a
>scenario, requiring three refrigerators, researcher
>Entanglement, and a near fatal fall too risky to have been
>deliberate, on the one hand, and a simple teleport in line
>with earlier progress on The Kitten Antigravity Project, on
>the other, science comes down firmly for the ever so simple
>teleport theory.

of course, if you spoke Feline, you could just *ask* Ark.