How do cats always land on their feet?

[Melizmatic]

I love my new kitty, but damn I miss this guy:

[anon8420928]

@Turnips

Seems as good a time as any to wonder out loud whether I’ll see a cat on a space station in my lifetime.

One that roams free? In zero gravity?

As soon as space stations are privately owned, but I’m not going.

[chenille]

@Turnips

Seems as good a time as any to wonder out loud whether I’ll see a cat on a space station in my lifetime.

If they always land on their feet, how would they get there?

[smulder]

Cats are four-dimensional, obviously.

Everybody knows that.

[jsroberts]

Time for a social justice kitten:

[Kii]

Our fuzzy Empress

and her two loyal retainers

[wrecksdart]

Gotta swing 'em real hard by their tail to beat that special ability.

[ChickieD]

[PeterNGreen]

[miasm]

Actually… ahem… Actually, a cats terminal velocity, slowed by a parachute effect from spreading their legs and using the excess skin between to slow their descent, means that falls from higher than about 15 stories and below about 9 stories (of a high rise building) are survivable.

They only have to worry about the height in between.

Let me see if I can find the documentary evidence I hazily recall.

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I think it was a BBC documentary I saw it on originally but here’s a BBC news story with some details.

How do cats survive falls from great heights?

[Kii]

@miasm

slowed by a parachute effect from spreading their legs and using the excess skin between to slow their descent,

Haha. Our orange guy has so much skin, he would just float down…

[L_Mariachi]

They will see us falling from such great heights
"Meow meow meow,"
They’ll saaay

[L_Mariachi]

But everything looks purrfect from far away
"Meow meow"
But we’re spaaaayed