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Does it have to be your own pet ? |
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Does it actually have to be dead when sealed in the cat bag ? |
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Do you offer Plastination ? |
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Welcome to the Halfbakery, [Latherdome]. |
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Wouldn't there be issues with the whole sending a rotting
stinking corpse through the mail thing? |
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I guess you could freeze them first but it would have to be a
heavily insulated bag. Not sure how you'd freeze a Great
Dane. |
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// Wouldn't there be issues with the whole sending a rotting
stinking corpse through the mail thing? // |
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If the cat is alive when stuffed into the bag, then as long as it
arrives within 48 hours it should be acceptably fresh. |
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The answer, shirley, is a Schrodinger cat box, which keeps the
cat fresh by quantum indeterminacy ? |
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There's nothing noticeably indeterminate about pyramids. 25,000 tons of rock has a determined quality all of its own. |
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You always know where you are with pyramids. You bang into one, and say, "Yup, that's a pyramid, that is". |
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Collapsing into waveform is simply the scientific
description of what your soul does when you die and
someone exhumes your tomb that you've so carefully
stuck in the middle of a pile of huge stones built for
years by slaves, hoping that no one would ever come
and bother you. |
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This explains why light is both a wave and a particle;
it exists in both heavenly and earthly realms... |
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That would be a spifenorkenfoon. Invented here on
earth, actually, before the Romulans came. |
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//been watching quite a few videos on the power of pyramids recently// |
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Fascinating that the sides of the pyramids are parabolic eh?
I wonder what their focal points once were back when they were all polished up and shiny.
Must have taken quite a bit of math to make that from hand-hewn stone Lego blocks. |
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Welcome to the most normal place in the entire world,
especially the part ruled over by the pulsating orange
turnip. |
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We think you'll find that Donald Tusk is a Pole, not a Swede ... |
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// sending a rotting stinking corpse through the mail // |
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The answer is clearly to avoid the postal service altogether, and instead have the remains conveyed rapidly to the place of treatment by a car and driver, hired on a short term basis just for that one journey. |
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This would presumably be called Taxidermy By Taxi... |
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//...have the remains conveyed rapidly to the place
of treatment by a car and driver, hired on a short
term basis// - if, instead of a car, the hired
vehicle used for cadaver transportation was a
motorized bicycle such as is used for motor-paced
cycling events, it would be "taxidermy by taxi
derny". |
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//Fascinating that the sides of the pyramids are parabolic eh?// |
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It would be, if they were. Sadly, they're not. Some them (at least the remaining stone structure) have slightly concave faces attrubuted to a combination of post-construction settlement and during-construction error. The latter, in turn, has been posited as arising from the fact that things like measuring rods are not infinitely stiff, and themselves tended to dip a little. The Egyptians had lots of clever ways to keep things straight, flat and level but they weren't always used and weren't always perfect. A few pyramids also have slightly convex faces, or some faces slightly convex and some slightly concave. |
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On those pyramids which retain traces of their original cladding, the surface of the cladding is closer to being flat than the underlying structure. |
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Presumably, there was a stage in the construction of all great pyramids where the foreman sucked air through his teeth and said "Nah, get a skim-coat on that an' it'll be fine guvnor." Only in Egyptian, probably. |
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Ah to have a time machine... |
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//post-construction settlement and during-construction error// |
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I thought the slight concavity was by design? |
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The casing stones got slightly thicker as you moved from the corner
towards the centre of the face. At the same time, the inner
structural stones moved slightly inwards, so that the whole structure
interlocked. |
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The resulting pyramid was stronger than it would have been if all
the stones were cut to the same size, which would have left a large
plane along which the stones could move relative to each other. |
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(We have no way to measure the original shape or orientation of
the pyramids. All we can measure are the hulks that remain after
they've long since been stripped by the local pikeys.) |
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You should be ashamed of yourself for employing such blatantly
pejorative language. |
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Some pikeys, for example Lord Elgin and Heinrich Schliemann,
were not local at all, but travelled considerable distances at their
own expense to pry bits off ancient architecture, crate it up, and
ship it away to museums to allow it to be preserved, studied, and
used to crush the spirit of schoolchildren on day trips. |
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It could equally well have been "vocal" or "loyal". |
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Autocorrect's a bunner ... |
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