1/12/2024 0 Comments Rainbow pop tart cat in outerspace![]() ![]() He was traveling the world, attending different meme conferences and cat video conventions, but it was difficult to balance the demands of being a meme creator with those of his day job. But for Torres, being Nyan Cat Guy wasn’t always Pop-Tarts and rainbows. ![]() In 2012, Cheezburger editor Emily Huh theorized why the internet was so drawn to felines: “Cat owners don't have a ‘cat park’ or a place where they can congregate in person to talk about their cats like how dog owners have a dog park to talk about their dogs.” So, the internet became a virtual “cat park,” and the eye-popping, slightly ridiculous Nyan Cat fit right in.īy the summer of 2011, Nyan Cat was everywhere: There were cosplays and an official video game YouTube even added a custom Nyan Cat progress bar to the video. I think that's what it's all about - when the internet just kind of understands an image and chooses it as something that they want to share with others."Ĭats have been long-running stars on the internet - think of Grumpy Cat, Coughing Cat, Keyboard Cat, or the Kitty Cat Dance. “I posted it on the internet, the internet loved it, and it just organically took off from there. ![]() “It was never meant to be anything that it became,” says the now 35-year-old artist. Today, Torres says he could never have anticipated this turn of events. From there, his GIF became one of the most ubiquitous images on the internet. So if you hear this song, for the love of science, get out of the way.By the time Torres was starting his new insurance job, the video had been picked up by CollegeHumor and E4’s Attack of the Show. As cute as it is, a housecat-sized Pop-Tart creature moving at Mach 7 has eight times the kinetic energy as a two-ton car moving at highway speed. Discovering Pop-Tart cat rainbow farts that contain over eight mega-joules of energy could win the next (Ig) Nobel Prize. Therefore, the cat’s rainbow must provide the remainder. Given the mass of the meme and how fast an object has to go to escape the pull of the Moon, Nyan Cat would need 166 times more energy than is held within the calories of its tart-body to get back to cruising the cosmos. And if an average housecat is about three kilograms, all the energy contained within Nyan Cat’s strawberry pastry body could only get the kitten up to about three-quarters the velocity of a cruising 747-almost 500 miles per hour (based on kinetic energy alone). That sounds like a lot, but you can get that many Joules from burning just a gram of coal. But could the furry/delicious abomination actually produce such thrust? Where would it get the energy to do so? (C'mon, you've come with me this far already.) According to some of the oddest calculations I’ve ever seen, a strawberry Pop-Tart the size of a housecat contains about 51,000 Joules of energy. That's about 0.1% of the thrust of just one Boeing 747 engine, but then again the delicious feline doesn't weigh 900,000 pounds. If that were the case, Nyan Cat's rainbow magically generates around 300 Newtons of thrust. Nyan Cat's rainbow could have a thrust-to-weight ratio of 10-to-1. If the critter can outperform the jet, it would also outperform its engines. The escape velocity of the Moon-and therefore Nyan Cat's velocity in my feline fantasy-is twice as fast as our fastest jet the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. That little cat is indeed excreting a hypersonic rainbow out its backside. For the Moon, this turns about to be about 2,375 meters per second-or around seven times the speed of sound in air. This critical speed is dependent on the mass and size of the object producing the pull, as well as a defined gravitational constant. Like how rockets on Earth must do, Nyan Cat would have to reach the escape velocity of the Moon. And what better place to take off and land from than the giant litter box that is the undisturbed regolith of the Moon? If Nyan Cat landed on the Moon to do its business, the strawberry-flavored critter would eventually have to get off the surface-it would have to escape the Moon’s gravitational pull. That’s because this cosmic cat, this ubiquitous meme, has to take off and land adorably in space. An 8-bit Pop-Tart kitty moves twice as fast as the fastest jet ever created. ![]()
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