Horny cats might randomly bite your ankle (if male) or enrich your nights (and your neighbours’) with the song of their people (if female), but I’ve never seen a cat trying to hump a human (or anything other than another cat).

Dogs? Sure. Endangered New Zealand flightless parrots? Yeah. Once. On video. Cats? Not once.

Is the first one a siamese…?

Extremely chatty critters, those…

Kittens meow to their mothers.

But yeah, cats have evolved to meow in just the right tone that makes us go all “aww, I need to help this cute little varmint, even if it will scratch me for the effort”, so you’ve got a point there.

Because amongst cats grooming is a show of dominance.

Cats have standards.

Mehdi, is that you…?

Thor’s the god of thunder, not lightning.

Indeed it is!

The multi-bear!

60

More like three hundred (unless you mean how long it lasted).

The government parties do.

The government parties who approved these regulations…?

In general the default for cats and dogs is the male form, though it can be ambiguous between male and don’t know / don’t care.

For instance if you saw a random unidentified cat you could say you saw “un gat / gato / chat”, and it would be impossible to tell whether you were referring to a male cat or a cat of unknown gender (while if you used the female form it’d be unambiguous).

Romance languages really could use a neutral form, but “gat@”, “gat*”, or “gatx” just don’t work when you try to figure out how to say them out loud, and using the female form for neutral just moves the problem to the other side.

About 80% of orange cats are male; not as clear as one in three thousand for calicos, but stilll.

The problem is that what sounds good in German doesn’t necessarily sound good in other gendered languages (romance languages, for instance), so if you know both you need to know multiple mutually incompatible lists of arbitrarily gendered words.

Many romance languages have both; for instance, in Catalan “gos” / “gossa”, “gat” / “gata”, in Spanish, “perro” / “perra”, “gato” / “gata”, or in French “chien” / “chienne”, “chat” / “chatte”.

I remember that guy who did some minor parts in Hollywood (and also did some side work as a camera operator), was told he had no future in the business, became a carpenter to pay his bills, did some carpentry work for a minor producer who got him a minor role in some fledgling director’s second (and first successful) film, said director liked him enough to hire him to read lines for his third film’s castings, and since he turned out to be more charismatic than the guys who were actually auditioning ended giving him one of the main roles in said film… which turned on to be one of the most successful films of all time (mostly thanks to said director realising the power of merchandising). That carpenter went on to have a pretty good acting career in Hollywood after that, it turns out; he’s still working now at over eighty years old.

That probably wouldn’t happen these days, and Hollywood is the poorer for it.

These colours were chosen specifically so we wouldn’t notice the nicotine coating everything.

Too late.

in like sg1 which is more realistic to use, we would need aliens to give us the tech, because we would never be able to conceive on our own.

Excuse me, we stole, I mean salvaged, most of that tech by ourselves, and we used it to kick goa’uld ass all over the galaxy (and, to be fair, they had stolen it first).

Sure, some aliens did give us some tech, but only because we saved their scrawny hyper-advanced asses from their own hubris because, unlike them, we could conceive of hitting things with a big stick, or shooting small but fast metal pellets at them using barely controlled explosions (you know what, disregard the metal pellet and controlled explosions part, just throw C4 at the problem until it goes away!).

Damn, I miss that series.

Well, some of it might manage to go out the window.

Most of that will probably hit another building, or a tree, or the ground, or something, and get absorbed (and permitted), but some of it might not hit anything solid and carry on into the atmosphere… where a good part of it will end up hitting a cloud, or a nitrogen atom, or a pigeon… but some might end up in space. And carry on for aeons, into the cosmos.