Can a cat survive any fall?

Posted by JMchaos on Sept. 26, 2006, 8:23 p.m.

I dont reccomend trying this with your cat, but in Physics class I learned that a cat can survive a fall of over 100 floors. Im not kidding, well depends how fat the cat is.

Example: http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=87020 (type it into yuor URL, its FUNNY like hell)

According to a crazy scientist who threw his cat off his 13 floor condominium, if a cat can survive a 13 floor fall then it can survive any fall. And the cat, did survive the fall. Im not surprised though, ive seen videos of cats falling off really tall trees.

Reason: with the calculations correct, scientists found that after exactly 13 floors of falling, a cat reaches its terminal velocity, in other words, it cant go any faster.

So if you throw a cat off a 13th floor or a 14th floor, it wont matter how higher you are, the cat will hit the ground with the same velocity and force as it did on the 13th floor. If scientits are correct, a cat CAN survive a fall of the Empire State Building.

Crazy shit… now lets try that with a someones cat…

Comments

Kenon 17 years, 7 months ago

*gets an old cat of his and throws it off the empire state building*

*cat lands on Melee master*

*Cat rebounds right back up*

Odd….

Cesar 17 years, 7 months ago

*throws cat off roof with buttered toast (buttered side up) strapped to cat*

*cat starts spinning in mid-air rapidly*

*toast is trying to land buttered side down, cat is trying to land on its feet*

*perpetual motion machine is created*

Cesar 17 years, 7 months ago

OWNED

melee-master 17 years, 7 months ago

Heh, cats have survived really huge falls.

Kaz 17 years, 7 months ago

OMG Pacmans a genious!!

DesertFox 17 years, 7 months ago

According to physics, once a cat falls a certain height, it is MORE likely to survive, because it has more time to orient itself accordingly.

And believe it or not, that certain height is less than or somewhere near 10 stories. Cats can survive a large fall.

One person (human, in case you didn't get it) survived a 4.5 mile fall from an aircraft.

Kaz, I'm a halfbaker. We thought of that years ago. *smug smile*

DesertFox 17 years, 7 months ago

Damn. You already stated all of this above post. Except the 4.5 mile fall thing. woot.

Kaz 17 years, 7 months ago

Yes that was sarcasm. Why? Because everyone knows cats hate toast.

Dr_Eechmen 17 years, 7 months ago

That person landed in a snowbank in the alps, didn't she?

Dr_Eechmen 17 years, 7 months ago

At least, I think it was the incident with the stewardess..