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Operation Cat Drop is the name given to the delivery of cats, equipment and supplies by the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force to remote regions of the then-British colony of Sarawak (today part of Malaysia), on the island of Borneo in 1960. [1]
The cats were flown out of Singapore and delivered in crates dropped by parachutes as part of a broader program of supplying cats to combat an infestation of rats. [56] The operation, known as Operation Cat Drop, was reported as a success at the time. [57] [58] Newspaper reports published soon after the Operation reference only 23 cats being used.
The falling cat problem has elicited interest from scientists including George Gabriel Stokes, James Clerk Maxwell, and Étienne-Jules Marey.In a letter to his wife, Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell, Maxwell wrote, "There is a tradition in Trinity that when I was here I discovered a method of throwing a cat so as not to light on its feet, and that I used to throw cats out of windows.
Nov. 15—On a windy Saturday in Corvallis, the Columbia Falls football team dropped the Blue Devils 19-7 to advance to state A championship against Dillon. The Wildcats took a 19-0 lead in the ...
Jeffrey Blitz talks about directing the Emmy-winning 'Office' episode 'Stress Relief,' the art of cat stunts and comedian Cloris Leachman's commitment to her craft.
The paradox arises when one considers what would happen if one attached a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat, then dropped the cat from a large height. The buttered cat paradox, submitted by artist John Frazee of Kingston, New York, won a 1993 Omni magazine competition about paradoxes.
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During a fall from a high place, a cat can reflexively twist its body and right itself using its acute sense of balance and its flexibility. [8] [9] This is known as the cat's "righting reflex". The minimum height required for this to occur in most cats (safely) would be around 90 cm (3.0 ft).