The nine-year-old, who's being looked after at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, weighs just over 1 stone 8lbs (10kg), which is twice his recommended size.
The shelter says he is now being put through "bootcamp" including a special diet and exercise through play.
"Titan's been living up to his name and enjoying the fat-cat lifestyle," said SuiLi Weight from the charity.
I thought you were against the fat-cat diet? In fact I've heard the word bootcamp used in connection with Derek. And hang on, that cat's weight is almost exactly what Derek has lost..
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I rushed to this thread precipitously, imagining some new factoid which had been quietly whizzing through the quiet of space between 'stargazers lounge' and concerning the prospects for life on the largest of Saturn's moons or some such.
Alas no.
So instead I shall say how much I have been enjoying using the new word 'catachresis' in imaginary conversations. Though it's quite a tough one to work in.
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Post-Einsteinian feminist politically correct mathematician Marcus de Sautoy is on the box opining about neutrinos potentially having tacheonic behaviour. And they say that philosophy is arcane.
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Daniel J.
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djewesbury wrote:Post-Einsteinian feminist politically correct mathematician Marcus de Sautoy is on the box opening about neutrinos potentially having tacheonic behaviour. And they say that philosophy is arcane.
I'm all over it. Feeling clever without actually having to be.
What's going on with the side mouth speaking. Unhienlich.
A higher brain living in a different ten- or eleven-dimensional universe, which exists next to ours rather like neighbouring slices of bread in a loaf. That is apparently how you explain how neutrinos can go faster than the speed of light. Because they take a short cut through the bulk (the rest of the loaf) and then re-enter the brain (our slice).
See?
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djewesbury wrote:A higher brain living in a different ten- or eleven-dimensional universe, which exists next to ours rather like neighbouring slices of bread in a loaf. That is apparently how you explain how neutrinos can go faster than the speed of light. Because they take a short cut through the bulk (the rest of the loaf) and then re-enter the brain (our slice).
See?
Was it brown or white bread?
"The first duty of Port is to be red" Ernest H. Cockburn
The most interesting and complicated geometry happens in three or four dimensions. Above that it’s really quite easy. In 5+ there are so many routes from anywhere to anywhere that it all becomes rather tediously trivial.
jdaw1 wrote:The most interesting and complicated geometry happens in three or four dimensions. Above that it’s really quite easy. In 5+ there are so many routes from anywhere to anywhere that it all becomes rather tediously trivial.
Too much choice, just stay at home. Yes. I see.
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So let’s drop to 2 and 3 dimensions. Consider a 2D universe. Things all happen on a very very very large piece of paper, with flatlanders creeping around trying to live their lives. Now imagine that the paper is bent, almost crumpled, except that there are no folds, only curves. Two places on the paper could be very close to each in 3D space, but a long way apart for creatures restricted to the 2D paper. If a neutrino were to jump out of its 2D constriction, hop across the 3D gap, and reappear in the 2D world, it might appear to a flatlander to have teleported a long way.
Now add some dimensions. Make visible space-time 4D, and bend it in a higher dimensional space. Places that appear far away to us might be, in the higher-dimensional sense, quite close. That could be a cause of interesting things.