Feline HALO without the LO.
Four.Finray wrote:
Do you have a cat?Shem wrote:
Cat's have a non-lethal terminal velocity.
60mph I believeRyan wrote:
What is their terminal velocity?Shem wrote:
Cat's have a non-lethal terminal velocity.
When a cat falls it is more likely to injure itself below 7 stories.
This is because when a cat falls it splays itself spreading the impact damage and slowing it's decent in the air, before 7 stories it doesn't have time to do this in the air. After the seventh floor cats actually have the same chance of death at any height, theoretically a cat can be thrown from a plane and survive the fall. Except, as I say if it dies from the shock of it all.
Pressing 9 obviously didn't work for it then.
HANOM.O.A.B wrote:
Feline HALO without the LO.
High Altitude No Opening
Also, I'm not buying the thing about terminal velocity, a cat doesn't have more wind resistance than a human lying down...
But then again, cats are light, so that the momentum they gain in the fall is perhaps not great enough to kill them?
They will fall at about the same speed as a human though.
Only in Iceland
In Iceland, the cat freezes solid before it lands, and therefore shatters on impact..Sup wrote:
Only in Iceland
So therefore, your logic is flawed.
Well actually I thought you only had penguins as your pets in the far NorthSydney wrote:
In Iceland, the cat freezes solid before it lands, and therefore shatters on impact..Sup wrote:
Only in Iceland
So therefore, your logic is flawed.
We have penguins, cats and hamsters as pets, while we breed polar bears and whales for eating..Sup wrote:
Well actually I thought you only had penguins as your pets in the far NorthSydney wrote:
In Iceland, the cat freezes solid before it lands, and therefore shatters on impact..Sup wrote:
Only in Iceland
So therefore, your logic is flawed.
haha lol +1 tomorrowSydney wrote:
We have penguins, cats and hamsters as pets, while we breed polar bears and whales for eating..Sup wrote:
Well actually I thought you only had penguins as your pets in the far NorthSydney wrote:
In Iceland, the cat freezes solid before it lands, and therefore shatters on impact.
So therefore, your logic is flawed.
YES! I saw that show... or I think I watched it back in physics in school! I remember that it pointed out how cats bones were slightly bendy and would flex to absorb the impact, especially their ribcage.Flecco wrote:
Idk, I think it's like 4m/s.Ryan wrote:
What is their terminal velocity?Shem wrote:
Cat's have a non-lethal terminal velocity.
Humans is like 11m/s.
It also depends on the height dropped m8s. I'm a bit fuzzy on all this but I think if you drop them from the 11th floor of your standard high rise building it will die, but any other floors it will either come out unscathed or just be wounded/mortally wounded. Only from the 11th floor do you achieve instant death on impact.
/catkiller
Yeah I saw it on some weird ABC tv show ages back. Can't remember specifics now but it's all about relative height and how relaxed the cat is at the time of impact.
It seemed a novel concept at the time... I mean my cat is so heavy that I reckon itd just leave like a cat shaped hole in the road where it hit, a la Loony Tunes
Don't Icelandic polar bears wear armour, talk, and drink beer (well, when they've lost their armour, at least)??Sydney wrote:
We have penguins, cats and hamsters as pets, while we breed polar bears and whales for eating..Sup wrote:
Well actually I thought you only had penguins as your pets in the far NorthSydney wrote:
In Iceland, the cat freezes solid before it lands, and therefore shatters on impact.
So therefore, your logic is flawed.
Only when Daniel Craig is around.Scorpion0x17 wrote:
Don't Icelandic polar bears wear armour, talk, and drink beer (well, when they've lost their armour, at least)??Sydney wrote:
We have penguins, cats and hamsters as pets, while we breed polar bears and whales for eating..Sup wrote:
Well actually I thought you only had penguins as your pets in the far North
http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211.web.stu … locity.htmSydney wrote:
HANOM.O.A.B wrote:
Feline HALO without the LO.
High Altitude No Opening
Also, I'm not buying the thing about terminal velocity, a cat doesn't have more wind resistance than a human lying down...
But then again, cats are light, so that the momentum they gain in the fall is perhaps not great enough to kill them?
They will fall at about the same speed as a human though.
Big deal, I can jump 34 stories, land on my head and still live a perfect, healthy life.