Here’s something to talk about at Friday end of week celebration drinks this evening:

I probably should have given you a warning prior to you looking at the image so that this doesn’t end up another blue+black/white+gold dress situation. Well over 4 000 people have commented already.

People have used the positioning of the wood across each step to prove that the cat is coming down the stairs, whilst others have said the wood is holding mosaic tiles in place and thus the cat is walking up. What about the position of the cat’s tail?

“The cat is going up, the tail is used to balance the body of the cat and in this case the tail is elevated upwards so that when the cat uses its rear legs to push up it pushes parallel to the line on which gravity is working on the tail to stabilize itself,” said one commenter.

“Look at the cat’s tail — it’s facing upwards, or the opposite of the direction it’s moving in. If the cat were to go up the stairs, it’s tail would point downwards,” said another.

My opinion? I think it is coming down the stairs and this is only because I have a cat whose personal mission is to beat me up the stairs in my house every time I walk up them and this cat in the image is not in ‘race mode position’.

[Source: Business Insider]