According to QI and NYU
If a cat jumps (or is pushed) from a window of a tall building injuries to the animal will increase from the ground floor to ~ floor 5 or 6.
Thereafter the cat is able to reach a velocity that enables it to stablse it's decent and parachute down to the ground mitigating the risk of any physical damage.
So a cat is more likely to survive falling from the 10th floor of a building in NYC than one that falls from the 5th.
I used to sit next to this mad woman when I worked at Ford in Warley. Some things never change. This was in support of Red Nose Day.
Note: this article was originally published on the Silicon Meadow site, but I'm in the process of splitting the content up between four different sites, so the general message of the sites is more coherent. I've moved this article here, because it's more on the "fun" side, but I suspect the Google Adsense revenue might be more appropriate.
As well as the train journey from Leamington Spa to Wolverhampton, the final bit of my journey is a bus ride from Wolverhampton bus station to my house. Tonight's ride was interesting, as it was the first time I had ever spoken to someone in the bus shelter. It went like this:
