An Engineer's Guide to Cats, 2.0
December 21, 2013 8:38 PM Subscribe
An Engineer's Guide to Cats is a helpful video about cats, time travel, gravity, adorableness.
This is a sequel to the first Engineer's Guide to Cats, previously on Metafilter.
This is a sequel to the first Engineer's Guide to Cats, previously on Metafilter.
It has auto-tuned yodeling, no less.
posted by thomas j wise at 8:48 PM on December 21, 2013
posted by thomas j wise at 8:48 PM on December 21, 2013
Yes, auto-tuned. I have updated the tags to indicate the yodeling.
posted by gingerbeer at 9:27 PM on December 21, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by gingerbeer at 9:27 PM on December 21, 2013 [2 favorites]
The engineer's guide to cats is AMAZING. I'm a little sad about the 'lol engineers scared of women', but it is so good I can forgive them that.
posted by poe at 9:53 PM on December 21, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by poe at 9:53 PM on December 21, 2013 [3 favorites]
Ok, got 2.1 minutes in and now my stomach hurts and my husband thinks I'm a Loon for laughing this hard.
posted by bearwife at 9:56 PM on December 21, 2013
posted by bearwife at 9:56 PM on December 21, 2013
Those cats are amazingly cute. Especially the poor one-eyed one, aww.
posted by JHarris at 11:53 PM on December 21, 2013
posted by JHarris at 11:53 PM on December 21, 2013
LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATOR KITTY!
posted by rmd1023 at 3:36 AM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by rmd1023 at 3:36 AM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]
man I was like a hundred favorites until then they apply the cat experiments to women
posted by angrycat at 5:24 AM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by angrycat at 5:24 AM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]
The upright posture of the caped cat in the spaceship at the very end (7:27) implies that CISCIS does not affect cats in space.
posted by maryr at 7:32 AM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by maryr at 7:32 AM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]
...implies that CISCIS does not affect cats in space.
If their theories are correct, it would still occur on those rotating ring style space stations. In fact, because of the increased Coriolis effect, it may be necessary to forbid cat costumes less CISCIC effects quench the entire angular momentum of the station.
posted by 445supermag at 8:45 AM on December 22, 2013
If their theories are correct, it would still occur on those rotating ring style space stations. In fact, because of the increased Coriolis effect, it may be necessary to forbid cat costumes less CISCIC effects quench the entire angular momentum of the station.
posted by 445supermag at 8:45 AM on December 22, 2013
man I was like a hundred favorites until then they apply the cat experiments to women
Yeah, I was all "I'm going to email this to everyone I KNOW" until I hit that bit. I think it's meant to be a kind of double-bluff "isn't this exactly the kind of dumb thing our fake personae would do" joke, but if you cut that one short element out of the video it would be pure gold.
posted by yoink at 9:19 AM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]
Yeah, I was all "I'm going to email this to everyone I KNOW" until I hit that bit. I think it's meant to be a kind of double-bluff "isn't this exactly the kind of dumb thing our fake personae would do" joke, but if you cut that one short element out of the video it would be pure gold.
posted by yoink at 9:19 AM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]
I think it's meant to be a kind of double-bluff "isn't this exactly the kind of dumb thing our fake personae would do" joke
Oh, it certainly is. They're not actually harassing that lady, she's in on it. There was a bit like that in the first video that might have been a bit more obvious.
posted by JHarris at 2:52 PM on December 22, 2013
Oh, it certainly is. They're not actually harassing that lady, she's in on it. There was a bit like that in the first video that might have been a bit more obvious.
posted by JHarris at 2:52 PM on December 22, 2013
Doesn't sexism mean (literally) 1. discrimination based on gender, or 2. attitudes, conditions or behaviors that promote stereotyping of social roles based on gender?
Maybe, in the sense that by implying, in a self-deprecatory manner, that engineers have trouble relating to and approaching women, it subtly suggests that they cannot be women?
posted by JHarris at 3:54 AM on December 24, 2013
Maybe, in the sense that by implying, in a self-deprecatory manner, that engineers have trouble relating to and approaching women, it subtly suggests that they cannot be women?
posted by JHarris at 3:54 AM on December 24, 2013
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