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"Explain something to me"

Why do people shoot through the back of their throats?

Isn't to the side of the head fashionable anymore?

Miserableman wrote:
> How the blazes did they test this? Attaining figures of 30% this or
> that require you take a lot of samples.

Yeah, it all sounds a little suspect to me. Hell, all I'm doing is stirring by posting from another website. I'm not an expert on cat and said beast being thrown from building physics. ;)

Pandaemonium wrote:
> "Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a
> building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a
> cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about
> eight floors for the cat to realise what is occuring, relax and
> correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when
> it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact."

How the blazes did they test this? Attaining figures of 30% this or that require you take a lot of samples.

Chuck a cat out of a plane and see if it survives :P

gerrid wrote:
> munn wrote:
> But surely a cat's ribcage can only take so much of an impact before
> it shatters?
>
> nah, if it can withstand its own terminal velocity it will always
> survive. Dropped from a million miles up or just a hundred, you'll
> hit the ground at the same speed. In theory.

That's the idea.

Also it's something to do with wind resistance and stuff. Like flying squirrels.

munn wrote:
> But surely a cat's ribcage can only take so much of an impact before
> it shatters?

nah, if it can withstand its own terminal velocity it will always survive. Dropped from a million miles up or just a hundred, you'll hit the ground at the same speed. In theory.

Besides, Pandae backed me up.

Assuming that he quoted...

Blank wrote:
> Clazon wrote:
> If a cat jumps out of a building from the 7th floor or above it
> lives.
> Anything less than that and it dies.
>
> So if I drop a cat from two feet up, it'll die?

Strangely enough, if you were pedantic enough to follow the scientists theory to the exact word, you would come to this conclusion.

Not much of a loss to the world.
you ask me
the cats just stupid jumping off.

what sicko did this test on cats anyway.

answers obvious.

ME

But surely a cat's ribcage can only take so much of an impact before it shatters?

"Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact."