Yeah, it's Monday.

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I am constantly in awe of the feline's grace and poise. They jump four or five feet from the floor to the window ledge, and it gets me every time. But I was raised around clumsy, bumbling dogs (who I still love).

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Early morning, she wakes up

Fall, fall, fall out the window

It's time for landing, on the ground

It's you they're all waiting for

They go…

"Isn't she lovely, this amazing cat?"

And they say…

[CHORUS:]

She's so lucky, she's a cat

But she falls, falls, falls out her tall window

If there's nothing left of her nine lives

Then why did she make it alright?

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Oh here it is:

A cat reaches its terminal velocity of 60 mph within 5 stories of freefall. For comparison, a person's terminal velocity is 120 mph.

Once a cat reaches its terminal velocity, it then begins to slow down. This is because the cat relaxes, changing its position from back arched, head down, and legs pulled tightly underneath its body, to resemble a spread eagle cat. This increases its cross-sectional area and slows the cat down. The reason for this is that our bodies are only sensitive to acceleration (this is why at times on an airplane flight it feels as if you aren't moving at all). Relaxing also causes the impact force to be spread out over more area when the cat lands, resulting in a decrease in injuries to cats' limbs when they fall seven or more stories.

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