Cat falls 80-ft...

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elbosco

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Originally posted by: Horus
Originally posted by: Taggart
The terminal velocity of a cat isn't fast enough to kill it, right? So basically you can drop a cat from 30K feet and it would live.

The terminal velocity of a human is fast enough to kill on the other hand, obviously.

Something about that seems WRONG.

Yes and no.

While cats have a non-fatal terminal velocity, a fall from 30k will kill any cat.

Depending on what the cat landed on and length of descent, it could suffer anything from internal hemorrhaging and broken bones to needing a spatula to scrape its remains off the sidewalk.

It?s not like you could chuck a cat out of a Cessna at 800ft and expect it to pull off a graceful, Marry Poppins? landing and walk away unscathed. Anyone who tries such an experiment should be tossed out along with the cat.
 
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wow ..... did u see it spinning its tale as it was falling lol....wonder why it did that, it caught on to some branches but then landed on its back....would of been better to jus fall