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From: toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Squirrel Questions (really cats)
Keywords: drag terminal velocity
Message-ID: <630@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
Date: 30 Sep 88 16:15:51 GMT
References: <22811@mordor.s1.gov> <14804@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <3519@phri.UUCP> <3768@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <14847@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8150@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
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In article <8150@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> newton@cit-vax.UUCP (Mike Newton) writes:
>The article everyone is referring to was an AP (?) wire story and ran
>in many newspapers across the country this summer.
I'm SURE that the original was a 1-2 page article in either Nature or Science
sometime in the winter or spring of 1988.  I've looked but can't locate it
in my files, sorry to report.
Tom  toms@ncifcrf.gov
NO WAIT! IT'S IN MY JOKE FILE!!!

@article{Diamond1988,
author = "J. M. Diamond",
title = "Why cats have nine lives",
journal = "Nature",
volume = "332",  
pages = "586-587",
year = "1988"} 
         
There are other references within.  My favorite sentence is:
"... a cat falling in the atmosphere reaches a TERMINAL velocity of about 60
m.p.h. ..."  &-)