schrödinger's cat
Aug. 12th, 2005 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
albionidahoJeff just left. Jeff who was the second husband of our friend Sandra who introduced us to Jeff who is now waiting for Sandra to get insurance so they can get divorced.
There.
So somehow we got onto the topic of Schrödinger's cat. Rice, my husband, points out that the cat would die from boredom within a week if from nothing else.
So this is what I said, progressively as inspiration hit:
Take a very large box with a tiny cubby hole. Put two male mice and two female mice in it. They'll reproduce and the cat will have something to place with.
Add a perpetual sandbox and a device so the cat can drink and the device will take the cat's urine and make more water. Extra water may also be thrown in. Add a TV (some cats like a TV) and a mirror. The mice are food for the cat.
Rice points out this is getting complicated.
Add an engine, I advise, and a computer to pilot and send the box to Mars.
And while you're at it, throw in four cats -- two male, two female -- so they can populate Mars with cats.
And hopefully Mars is hollow, sort of like perhaps the Earth is hollow (or not) and the cats can live in the hollow Mars and populate Mars with cats and mice.
And then we can watch them evolve.
Rice asked what in the world had come through my writing groups to critique today.
"Nothing. I haven't read any fiction today ... yet."
He really worries sometimes.
In other news, I booked the hotel rooms for our Salt Lake jaunt next week.
And I really need to get some writing done.
There.
So somehow we got onto the topic of Schrödinger's cat. Rice, my husband, points out that the cat would die from boredom within a week if from nothing else.
So this is what I said, progressively as inspiration hit:
Take a very large box with a tiny cubby hole. Put two male mice and two female mice in it. They'll reproduce and the cat will have something to place with.
Add a perpetual sandbox and a device so the cat can drink and the device will take the cat's urine and make more water. Extra water may also be thrown in. Add a TV (some cats like a TV) and a mirror. The mice are food for the cat.
Rice points out this is getting complicated.
Add an engine, I advise, and a computer to pilot and send the box to Mars.
And while you're at it, throw in four cats -- two male, two female -- so they can populate Mars with cats.
And hopefully Mars is hollow, sort of like perhaps the Earth is hollow (or not) and the cats can live in the hollow Mars and populate Mars with cats and mice.
And then we can watch them evolve.
Rice asked what in the world had come through my writing groups to critique today.
"Nothing. I haven't read any fiction today ... yet."
He really worries sometimes.
In other news, I booked the hotel rooms for our Salt Lake jaunt next week.
And I really need to get some writing done.
