Oh no, Geoff, you're dead wrong. Take a cat plus chicken tikka masala and some white shag pile carpet, and you have the world's first monorail system based on antigravity ...

In a similar vien: in a humorous research paper I heard of, the author proposed an array cats with slices of buttered toast strapped to their backs as a mechanism to facilitate high-speed travel. As the toast always lands buttered side down and the cat must always land on its feet, the combination would remain spinning just above the ground in perpetuity.