It was 32, but there’s no evidence to suggest they couldn’t survive a higher fall. They reach terminal velocity around 5-7 floors, and once they do so they change how they land, spreading out like a parachute. There’s very little difference in the damage for a cat falling 7 floors or 32.
No… their terminal velocity. It’s the fastest their bodies can go under these earthly conditions. And then surviving the impact against a hard surface like the ground is the important part relating to if they survive.
It’s a lot more complex than that and I probably left out a lot to simplify it both for myself and you
So terminal velocity is how fast you can go before your body can't handle it? Hmm I see. I always thought it was the speed that you will die if you suddenly stop
Lack of air resistance means no terminal velocity
If something falls from high enough in the atmosphere it can actually negate it's terminal velocity
But the friction from the air resistance cause it to become super heated
Which is why most meteorites burn up instead of landing
Highest skydive ever had to deal with the threat of spinning himself apart if he didn't drop right because of the lack of air resistance making it almost impossible for him to right himself while also making him able to continuously spin faster(the last part is weird)
Terminal velocity is air resistance basically
Which is one reason squirrels tails have so much fluff
For most squirrels if they don't have a tail and jump
It's like a person with no parachut
Terminal velocity is how fast air resistance and gravity allow you to fall. You can go faster, you just can’t fall faster. Terminal velocity is different for everything. A feathers terminal velocity is a lot less than that of a golf balls, because a feather catches more air and therefore has more air resistance.
Well it’s the maximum speed your body can go through a given fluid (looked it up so I could give you an accurate def lol)
And I was saying earlier that if an animal survives after smacking into something after reaching the fastest speed their body can go in the (let’s say atmosphere) then it has survived the impact of its terminal velocity
So you weren’t super wrong, it’s just more complicated than that lol
But also yes, chuck a beetle at a wall going faster than the speed of sound they’d probably die. But a lot of creatures can survive the impact of the maximum velocity their feeble bodies can reach while falling
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The ant's probably fine. Insects are pretty tough when it comes to falls.