Monday, August 13, 2012

Why cats (usually) land on their feet

Why do cats (usually) land on their feet? In the six-minute video below, missile engineer and last-name-avoider Destin explains…and includes some real stunt-cat dropping photographed with a high-speed camera. He also has archival footage of Air Force researchers dropping cats on parabolic flights, which helps explain the physics behind the phenomenon. As far as I can tell, no cats were harmed in the making of this video — though they seemed, at the very least, displeased.


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2 comments:

  1. Debbie, I have been considering a new series of postings at catnipoflife titled A Touch of Catnip. I would love to include this post. I do not see the reblog feature so I will have to link to this post unless I can discover something different. OK with you?

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