• Noodle07@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    On Mars you wouldn’t be able to have cabinets tall enough so that your cat can’t jump on them

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The cabinet could be 20 feet tall and they’d still figure out how to get up there.

      My parents have 4 cats and these ones are a lot different than all of the other cats we’ve had over the decades. My parents have a wall mounted cabinet where the bottom portion is about 5 feet off the ground and the top of it is about 8 feet off the ground. There’s about 6-9" between the top and the ceiling, and various decorations up there… The kitchen table is about a foot in front of it, at normal height, about 3-4 feet from the ground.

      One day I noticed one of the cats was on top of the cabinet! That’s a good 6 foot jump at a steep angle (100°, 110°? I suck at Trig) and she didn’t move a single decoration!

      • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I got bored and was curious myself.

        Assuming a cat can jump just over 2m (record is around 7’ apparently) then you have a launch velocity of around 6.5m/s. Plugging this in as an escape velocity works out to around a 1-2km diameter asteroid. Not huge, but not bad for a small animal.

        My error bars are quite large, so it’s only an order of magnitude calculation.

        • abbotsbury@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          Yeah thats not bad, assuming the asteroid is a perfect sphere, that comes out to a surface area of 12km2 for an interstellar cat colony that can move into orbit at will.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Quick reminder: you SPCA will tell you that a cat living 100% indoors will ensure Kitty and the surrounding bird population are happier for many years longer.

    “He rarely goes out” is the worst setting.

    Your car isn’t somehow special either.

    It used to be double. DOUBLE! now it’s even worse.

    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
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      10 months ago

      Fuck birds. They should have gone extinct 65 million years ago with the rest of the dinosaurs. This is the age of mammals. They had almost 200 million years (plus 65 million freeloading after their time was up), that should be way more than enough. Let the cats have their fun.

      • CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Just in case people do take this seriously, birds are important. If you want to take your cats out, supervise them or put them on a leash. The environment and your cats ARE better off not mangling with each other.