.... and that cat

[Brooks R]

No: HPFGUIDX 1339

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Simon Branford" <
simon.branford at h...> wrote:

> Or another possible answer being that the cat would be dead as it
ran out of
> air a long time ago.

Actually there was a science fiction story in the "Probability Zero" 
category of _Analog_ a few years ago where a spaceship is damaged and 
has only slightly more than half the air needed to get home.  To save 
the day a large number of the crew are put in a Schrodinger box,
poison 
and all, with the 50/50 chance of them dying, with the box to be
opened 
upon return to Earth.  Naturally, when they get home, the box is
opened 
and it is discovered that the coin toss was successful and everybody 
survived, but because during the voyage there was only a 50/50 chance 
of them being alive at the end, they only consumed half as much 
air..... (no, it could not work that way in real life)....

As for annoying the cat, it could always be sedated before being put
in 
the box.

-BR