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jt512
Jan 31, 2010, 6:08 PM
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shockabuku wrote: jt512 wrote: shockabuku wrote: sspssp wrote: tyify wrote: Human are kinda like cats to certain degree. A cat thrown out of a 1-2 story window will land without injury/minimal injury...However you throw a cat out of a 3 story window and its almost guarnteed to be injured/killed. A cat thrown out a 4-upwards story window will survive with minimal injury. The cat at 3 stories doesn't have enough time to right itself for the landing. The cat at 4 up stories has time and can absorb the shock by landing on its feet. The reason is that when you have time to prepare for the landing you can make it a lot better. The concept is sound but I call BS on your numbers. I remember seeing a documentary (on all sorts of animal abilities) and they held cats upside down (by their legs) and dropped from the height of the ceiling and the cat landed feet first. The ceiling may have been higher than 8 feet, but no way it was 3 or 4 stories... Cats falling from higher up have time to spread their bodies out and achieve terminal velocity at much lower speeds. They then have a much better chance of surviving the fall. At mid-level heights they can't do that and tend to get hurt. Bullshit. Jay No Jay, catshit. Here, read this. Even includes a citation of a published medical journal, should be just your style.
From your source: "The study authors speculated that after falling five stories the cats reached terminal velocity and thereafter relaxed and spread their bodies to increase drag."
To which I say "Bullshit."
Then your source continues: "However an alternative interpretation which came out of internet chat[7] of the study would be that upon an excess of seven stories the cats experience a higher fatality rate which precludes the owner from bringing them in for medical attention."
Which seems a hell of a lot more plausible.
Jay
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