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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Flying Horse released this award winning commercial based on the Buttered Cat Paradox in the "Other" section[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yW5cyXXRc].
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** And we must not forget about the one drive that functions on the principle that bad news always reaches places before anything else. Too bad nobody would allow it to dock.
** If you've done [[Alice in Wonderland|six impossible things this morning]], why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways - Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' dabbles in this from time to time.
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* The novel ''[[The Holy Land]]'' claims that extraterrestrials are taller because of relativity. They've been flying in spaceships for generations, and since everything in the universe is shrinking (the ''real'' reason for the redshift), the time dilation means that they've shrunken less.
** James Blaylock used the same premise in ''Land Of Dreams'', mostly as an excuse to include time travelers' giant shoes and spectacles in his novel alongside little men disguised as mice.
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* In an episode of ''[[Krypto the Superdog]]'', tiny aliens land on Earth to refuel their spaceship, the fuel in question being ''sugar''. And they're rather sickened to discover humans eat what is their equivalent of gasoline.
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* The tongue-in-cheek idea of building an anti-gravity or perpetual motion device by attaching a piece of buttered toast to a cat's back and dropping them from a height. According to the [[wikipedia:Buttered cat paradox|buttered cat paradox]], the cat must land feet first and the toast must land butter side down, but both can't hit the ground at the same time.
** Alan Moore played with this in ''[[Tomorrow Stories]]'', where kid supergenius Jack B. Quick buttered cats to create antigravity devices. His parents quickly reminded him, however, that the cat would eventually lick off the butter and fall, which they did just in time to fall on the [[Shout-Out|mutated pigs who had had a]] [[Animal Farm|Communist revolution]].
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