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Re:How do cats survive falls from great heights? by maeon3 on Sunday March 25, 2012 @04:42PM (#3753757)
If you drop an ant or a pea sized model car off a building it won't even suffer any damage hitting the ground, if you throw an elephant or a full sized train off a building, it will be pancaked or explode into pieces.

The strength of a bone increases with its circumference, but its mass increases with its volume. The volume increases incur expenses in inertia far more quickly than circumference incurs gains in strength.

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Re:How do cats survive falls from great heights? by smackay on Sunday March 25, 2012 @04:53PM (#3753786)
The following description (from a BBC documentary I think but I can't find the source) sums it nicely: If you dropped a mouse down a mineshaft it would bounce then scuttle away into the darkness, a man would be killed and a horse would splash.
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