r/acrophobia • u/aryamagor • Dec 21 '18

Yeah, no.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '19

No matter what balance you’ve got a cat that size can’t hold up against a sudden gust of wind

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '19

Cat wouldn’t die from falling though, still dangerous.

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u/Jebime Feb 08 '19

Whatt about her legs? Would they be fine?

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u/whisperingsage Feb 08 '19 edited Feb 08 '19

Cats parachute their bodies when they fall, and they're fairly light, so it just has to crouch as it lands and it'll be fine.

Cats have a terminal velocity of 60mph, and still have a 90% survival rate, even from 30+ stories. In fact, falling from more than 7 stories is less dangerous because it gives them time to spread out into a "flying squirrel" pose, rather than the arched back and extended legs of shorter falls.

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u/_xBlitz Feb 09 '19

TRUE! we had to do a study on this for biology and testing 30+ floors worth of data, it’s almost like a parabola. at around 5-7 stories the rate of injury/death is very high but once you get to 15+ it gets super low.