Cat accidentally taken along with ultralight flight on wing - General

I love how it just goes "meh ok may as well wait and enjoy while I'm here" after some time.

[QUOTE=Kwaq;48022910]haven't you seen that thing it can do with its tail? enough height and it will perform some satanic tail ritual to lower its terminal velocity[/QUOTE] helicopter cat can survive anything [video=youtube;Cv4MVHTPvAk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4MVHTPvAk[/video]

[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;48022936]Above 7 stories they spread their legs out increasing their wind resistance and making their terminal velocity non-lethal.[/QUOTE] And what then, a broken jaw, limbs, ribs..? Also I'm pretty sure that [I]a fat-ass[/I] cat could not actually survive those bigger drops.

[QUOTE=Wikipedia]With their righting reflex, cats often land uninjured. However, this is not always the case, since cats can still break bones or die from extreme falls. In a 1987 study, published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, of 132 cats that were brought into the New York Animal Medical Center after having fallen from buildings,[B] it was found that the injuries per cat increased depending on the height fallen up to seven stories, but decreased above seven stories.[/B][8] The study authors speculated that after falling five stories the cats reached terminal velocity and thereafter relaxed and spread their bodies to increase drag.[/QUOTE] No citation for this research on the page. [QUOTE=Journal-Of-Feline-Medicine-And-Surgery]High-rise syndrome was diagnosed in 119 cats over a 4-year period. 59.6% of cats were younger than one year, and the average height of the fall was four stories. High-rise syndrome was more frequent during the warmer period of the year. 96.5% of the presented cats, survived after the fall. 46.2% of cats had fractured limbs; 38.5% of fractures were of the forelimb, 61.5% of the hindlimb. The tibia was fractured most often (36.4%), followed by the femur (23.6%). 78.6% of femoral fractures were distal. The mean age of patients with femoral fractures was 9.1 months, and with tibial fractures 29.2 months. Thoracic trauma was diagnosed in 33.6% of cats. Pneumothorax was diagnosed in 20% of cats, and pulmonary contusions in 13.4%.[B] Falls from the seventh or higher stories, are associated with more severe injuries and with a higher incidence of thoracic trauma.[/B][/QUOTE] So we trust Wikipedia in which cat lovers post white-lies to make themselves feel better about cats or a trusted medical journal.

Yeah that has to be bullshit...right? Is my view on physics THAT wrong or am I just getting punked?

[QUOTE=Winner;48023379][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Cat_fall_150x300_6fps.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] this is how I used to re-orient objects in gmod

[QUOTE=Winner;48023501]birds[/QUOTE] Make sure you're sitting behind the engines though :v:

who has been throwing cats off of seven+ story buildings to obtain this data?

[QUOTE=Winner;48023501]birds[/QUOTE] Chickens, penguins and Kiwis.

I wonder if cavemen asked the same questions that we are right now and dropped saber-tooth tigers from airplanes.

All that talk about falling cats reminds me of: [video=youtube;CEYcGPF00l0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEYcGPF00l0[/video]

Can we just appreciate the fact that that cat doesn't even give a damn? Kitty balls of pure steel

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;48027224]All that talk about falling cats reminds me of: [video=youtube;CEYcGPF00l0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEYcGPF00l0[/video][/QUOTE] Wasn't that literally a troll face comic?

[QUOTE=The Calzone;48027111]who has been throwing cats off of seven+ story buildings to obtain this data?[/QUOTE] All data is based on accidents. Nobody's gonna throw cats off buildings to test things when we already have sufficient data to make a conclusion.

I think this is the video this whole discussion originates from: [video=youtube;7l7Uq1s-gts]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7Uq1s-gts[/video]

[QUOTE=The Calzone;48027111]who has been throwing cats off of seven+ story buildings to obtain this data?[/QUOTE] Nazi's, probably.

[QUOTE=Winner;48023379][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Cat_fall_150x300_6fps.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWbpyjJqrU[/media]

[QUOTE=PelPix123;48030125]This is wrong. The terminal velocity of a cat is only 50 mph because of the fur and the weight. Above a certain height increases in height only improve survival, because the cat has time to prepare to land. If a cat reaches terminal velocity but doesn't have time to prepare to land, like after a 4 story drop, it's significantly more likely to die than from a 200 ft drop.[/QUOTE] There's still the horizontal velocity as mentioned before.

if you kill a cat it will die

[QUOTE=yodafart9;48030566]if you kill a cat it will die[/QUOTE] no it will still have 8 lives left

[QUOTE=opaali;48031749]no it will still have 8 lives left[/QUOTE] That still means it has to die once though

[QUOTE=NikoChekhov;48031837]That still means it has to die once though[/QUOTE] #yodo

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiWBVEoZE3E[/media]

is this the viral teaser for Michael Bay's SWAT KATS movie

[QUOTE=Araknid;48032078][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiWBVEoZE3E[/media][/QUOTE] So basically, cats don't really give a fuck about falling from any height. Or I mean, there are some ideal, or idealistically bad situations and heights to fall from but.. certainly it's not exact science.

[QUOTE=Ott;48030409]There's still the horizontal velocity as mentioned before.[/QUOTE] Not going to make much of a difference, if any at all. Gravity is constant, but your horizontal velocity is very quickly slowed down by the air resistance until it doesn't affect you much anymore.