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The scope of feline weirdness is unprecedented. I mean, we do know cats are so dramatic they deserve an Oscar, they love sleeping in the most bizarre places like flower pots and tissue boxes, and sometimes their .exe stops working.

But what if I tell you that new evidence shows our beloved furballs have been defying the laws of physics?

From bouncing off the walls at 3 am like an astronaut in space to practicing for an audition for the Spider Cat sequel, these are the sightings that cancel gravity, the speed of light, mechanics... you name it. Let’s see it to believe it down below and I promise, you won’t be looking at your chonk in the tronk the same way again.

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Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The cat is on the other side of the glass, I think. He's showing through the box's reflection.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m pretty sure this is the best post submission, ever to exist on boredpanda.

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Mimi M
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely great. Didn't understand how the shot was done (thought there were two boxes) - had to read way down in the comments till someon explained it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is a good one. Now you see me, now you don't

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Felix Utterback
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The cat is on the other side of the glass, he just happens to mostly line up with the reflection of the box. If you look you can see his butt extends past the box's reflection and he is not actually in it

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Judith Wilson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

just the very tip of the tail extends beyond the reflection - not the kitty's butt

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Elaine Mattingly
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Took too long to figure this one, my face is red! Picture of the year!!!!!

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Laura Hager Hansgen
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🎵Take me down to Schrödinger City where the box contains both a live and dead kitty

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Maddie Painter
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My cat's actually named Schrodinger and until around third grade I never understood it until I read about him haha I was like "OMG, my cat must be genius of sumthin"

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Tammy Ralph
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The box is on the right and it's reflection is on the left, the cat is on the left side it just looks like it's in the box but it's not.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's just to suggest that something (the cat) can be in two states at once... Like dead and alive at the same time. Or in this case both in the box and out of the box.

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Sherrie Dawn
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty sure it's an illusion called "peppers ghost". It's how they do the "ghosts" in the haunted Mansion ride

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François Carré
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hope this picture will be used from now on in every student's book of physics to illustrate the experience.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This entire post should have been called 🎶 ”Spider Cat, Spider Cat...” 🎶 (Not my genius, just read the comments. You can’t view these images without singing this).

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Julie Lloyd
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes me too I thought it might have been a red herring. Haha.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kitty can't figure out how he is not in the box & in the box at the same time! 😆

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Marcia Clark
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My eyes aren't telling my brain what's happening here. Leave it to a kitty ,eh.

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Vernice Aure
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Magical Mystical Cat Clowder were well known for their amazing feats. Tabbin's skills were on another level altogether.

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Kathy Guillemette
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried to figure it out but I didn’t get to far. I read the comments since someone said it was explained there but it wasn’t there! So please tell me how that cat is missing in one but not the other!!?

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Luis D Rey
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nobody should pick on cats unless the cat is showing signs of sickness, he is the most beautiful creature ever created by THE ALMIGHTY

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Thunder
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t get what’s so special here. A cat in a box outside. And there’s another box inside. Wow?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

there is no box outside. the cat is sitting in the reflection of a box.

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For my next trick, I will make the cat move from the outside box to the inside box. Ta-da.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here, you will find the majestic cat tree. It appears as if there's a bountiful harvest this year

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To find out just how cats defy the laws of physics, Bored Panda reached out to cat behaviorist Celia Haddon, who has lectured on cat behavior at Ruskin Anglia University and Oxford Adult Education.

Celia explained that their climbing powers come down to unique feline anatomy. “Cats' claws are curved so they can use them for climbing upwards. They are retractable, so cats walk without their claws touching the ground, but protract them to climb.”

Moreover, the claws help felines grip onto surfaces. “They can, therefore, climb straight up, if there is something they can get their claws into, like a tree trunk or a wall which is not too smooth.” Having said that, Celia added that “a completely smooth 90-degree angle surface would be too much of a challenge.”

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🎶 Spider-Cat! Spider-Cat! Feral neighborhood Spider-Cat! 🎶

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Cats are also notorious jumpers who could reach the sky if they wanted to. The cat behaviorist said that “they can jump six times or more their own height from a standing start.”

Exactly how high that’d be depends on every cat individually. It may partly have to do with “the relative length of their back legs and their weight, according to a study in the Journal of Experimental Biology.”

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it just me, or is that smile on the cat's face somewhat unnerving?

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If you’re still not convinced that felines have special superpowers, wait till you hear how flexible they are.

Celia explained that: “They have free-floating tiny collar bones, or clavicles, which are not fixed to any of the other bones in their skeleton. (Humans' longer collar bones are attached to and brace together the breastbone and the shoulder blade.)”

Plus, “They have 30 vertebrae, the bones that make up the spine, with a further 18-23 vertebrae in the tails. It is their specially cushioned disks between their vertebrae that allow their spine to be so flexible.”

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As a result of this incredible anatomy, cats can, in fact, rotate their bodies 180 degrees to the left or right. So, no, you were not hallucinating, nor was it a glitch in the matrix.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm just sitting on top of the world. Or in this case, on top of the glass roof of a car.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This cat has an amazing sense of balance, even whilst asleep! I would have fallen between the crack ages ago.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

'Yo kid! Yeah u! Get your head over here I need a prop!*to catch this bird!*'

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