Cats and dogs!
There are two kinds of people in this world cat people and dog people. Me, I'm a dog person. Its not that hate cats, but me and cats have never really gotten along (incidents with my grandmothers cat when I was a child started it). They hiss and scratch and I've always found it better that I keep my distance. So me and cats have an understanding, I'll stay away from them, and they might consider not clawing my eyes out.

But this weekend I was reading New Scientist on the train down to Cork and at the back of the magazine, in the section title "questions for next week" was a curious thing. The enquirer asked if it is true that you can drop a cat from any height and it will survive? This is based on the theory that a cats terminal velocity is slower than the speed at which it can safely land. I'd be very interested in the reply.

I also remember another strange one about cats. It was based on the theory that a buttered slice of bread always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet. So, if you strap a slice of bread, butter side up to a cats back, drop them from a great height, the opposing forces (the need for the bread to not land butter side down and the need for the cat to land on its feet) cause the cat to levitate....

But the point is that even though I'm a dog person, I don't hate cats enough to try any of these experiments. They do make me curious though.
I mean, if a cat, in certain circumstances, can levitate and can't die from a high fall, why do they need 9 lives?
Answers on a postcard please.....