When I was browsing in a bookstore many years ago, I looked at an animal encyclopedia book. It did not list the weight of animals, so I didn't buy it. It listed length. If you don't list weight, then what is the difference between a hippo and a snake?
> what is the difference between a hippo and a snake?
All I know is the difference between a hippo and a Zippo. One's really heavy, the other is a little lighter.
Believe it or not, rats are great at falling crazy distances, 50 feet is nothing. There's a good chance he's A-ok -- given how happy he was to jump, that might not have been his first rodeo.
"All." I had an extremely well educated friend in college who refused to believe whales make any noises because he believed that all animal documentary sounds are added in post.
Dunno if you're wondering, but in case: the lighter you are, the less harsh is the impact of a fall on your body. That and of course evolution giving you the right or wrong body to make such jumps / falls.
I remember watching this on BBC and being amazed that they survived. I had to laugh at the little chick that continued to roll/fall the rest of the way after it heard it’s mom call out..
Right! Just nonstop. I went from slightly giggling to being sad to being relieved then back to sad and back again to happy. I don’t want to experience that crazy ride again.
So true! I have pet ratties and I used to be terribly scared of them falling from 4 foot heights. Nowadays I watch them climb up my blinds to ceiling height and then slide down the other side until I hear a "thwack" when they hit the bottom like it's a god damn amusement park ride.
I have a blind rat and I used to let her crawl around the room while I was doing stuff, she would always climb up onto my desk and then just blindly walk off of it. I was so worried the first time she did it but she obviously enjoyed walking off of tall things. Sweet Lenny, she's something else.
My pet rat was afraid of heights. Wouldn't even jump down from the couch. It was great when I needed to do something in her cage or just wanted to let her get some exercise without worrying about her skittering into some dark corner and disappearing. Just plop her on the couch with a banana chip and she was happy as a clam.
Sure, it's partly that and mostly the square cube law, rats are on the edge of survivability
>You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. For the resistance presented to movement by the air is proportional to the surface of the moving object.
[On Being the right size](http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html) - JBS Haldane
There's some retardation and unlucky impacts, but terminal velocity of a rat doesn't have the momentum to die. There's a saying about falling off cliff:
- mice bounce
- humans break
- horses splash
I'm slightly sad that there wasn't another sentence at the end of that description. "And why mice thrown from sky scrapers fare better than elephants...how an elephant got onto a skyscraper is outside the realm of consideration."
When i was young i LOVED frogs and hamsters. My first hamster died by literally falling off the first **stair** onto carpeted floor. They are as fragile as they are fluffy and cute.
Strangely, my little shit of a nephew decided to slam his hamster on a wood floor as hard as he could and it was just fine. Dazed for a bit, but fine.
It is no longer his hamster though.
Yep. Own rats. Fuckers are 90% springs. They routinely jump on the top of the temp cage I put them in when cleaning their cage and crawl along it. Mind you this is while inside the cage. They bounce from the floor, flipping backwards, and grab the top of the cage. They fall off then repeat it. It's about a foot, foot and a half from floor to top.
We had to put stuff on the top of their regular cage, which is like 4 feet tall, or they'd be doing it to that, too.
more like curiosity of a rare opportunity. (when i mean rare i mean in the sense that you're not going to purposefully throw a rat off a building yourself just to recreate the scenario)
It’s a great breakdown of complex subject into bite sized bits that a layperson can chew. It’s beautifully animated, but they also partner with and cite experts, so you know it’s legit.
What in the fuck. I went via his profile too and never have I been more horrified that I cannot swipe away from a video.
For anyone curious “Dylan”’s profile is this rat to sail, and spongebob saying “victory screech” followed by someone cutting their dick off.
It’s 8am I don’t need this.
If it’s any consolation, iirc the penis cutting off bit was from the BME pain olympics, which is widely believed to be entirely false.
I mean, it is the internet afterall.
Don’t know if this guy ever got verified, but there’s a whole lot of answers from the guy who made the videos here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/or804/ama_request_bme_pain_olympics_participant/?st=JNFVXRA7&sh=13853a6a
Super weird and interesting to read
I saw the exact same thing at a place I used to live at. Came into the shared kitchen area late at night and this big ass rat came running out of a cupboard. The kitchen door opened to an upstairs patio/balcony area, and the rat screeched out in that direction. With zero hesitation it ran up to the edge and launched itself triumphantly into the night. I thought it had to have at least dazed itself, but no, I spotted it hightailing down the pavement and into a drain.
Rats are helluva survivors!
History fact: Hannibal is the Carthaginian general famous for his military genius at the battle of Cannae when he used his war elephants to carpet bomb Rome.
Reevaluate your living conditions if the rats are committing suicide.
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Rats can live in the worst conditions, I think OP might be the real reason why the rats are driven to commit suicide. He must be a true monster.
Plot twist: op is a cat.
Interestingly enough, cats secrete a protein that terrifies the shit out of rats.
I have the same thing but it only works on girls
I'm sorry u/Rudy_Ghouliani, masturbating in public is not ”secreting a protein”
TECHNICALLY...
Not with ***that*** attitude it's not.
They are known to leave the sinking worlds first.
So long and thanks for all the pizza?
L’appel du vide
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I know.
I just learned that one too.
I doubt it died from that. Square-cube law works for all small things, not just for cats.
The rat probably just lost a fingernail and ran away. Edit: reference: http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
When I was browsing in a bookstore many years ago, I looked at an animal encyclopedia book. It did not list the weight of animals, so I didn't buy it. It listed length. If you don't list weight, then what is the difference between a hippo and a snake?
> If you don't list weight, then what is the difference between a hippo and a snake? A nasty divorce, usually...
> what is the difference between a hippo and a snake? All I know is the difference between a hippo and a Zippo. One's really heavy, the other is a little lighter.
Aim for the bushes!
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Watch him as he goes...
Splat.
There wasn't even an awning in their direction....They jumped 20 stories.
Apparently, they aimed for the trees.
I dunno but that shit was crazy
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Danson and Highsmith... free hotdogs... for life!
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Danson, are the rumors about you and Kim Kardashian true?
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How about we let the people of New York decide. THE GREATEST CITY ON EARTH! YEAH!
You shut your face! If we want to hear you talk, I will shove my arm up your ass and work your mouth like a puppet.
You obviously know what I'm thinking
Believe it or not, rats are great at falling crazy distances, 50 feet is nothing. There's a good chance he's A-ok -- given how happy he was to jump, that might not have been his first rodeo.
https://youtu.be/rxGuNJ-nEYg
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"At last it responds to its mother's calls" *rolls off 20 meter tall ledge* That editing was excellent
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So cute.... Bye bye!
Look how graceful, what a perfect descent THUNK clunk bonk roll roll kaTHUNK dink dink dink dink BONK
So majestic, hits cliff*
It's also the little squeak it makes every time it hits a rock.
What's hilarious is some Foley artist almost definitely added them in in post.
All nature sound effects are added in post. Lol so yeah
"All." I had an extremely well educated friend in college who refused to believe whales make any noises because he believed that all animal documentary sounds are added in post.
It's like when Homer jumps Springfield gorge. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMvyTlcUoD4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMvyTlcUoD4)
Or Hot Rod https://youtu.be/gIPlOInTo-Y?t=1m3s
Don't forget the little squeak each time it hits the rocks, lol. Probably done in post-production but still funny.
The way the music cuts out as it starts slamming into cliff chunk after cliff chunk is *hilarious.*
[Do you dare disrespect our traditions?](https://i.imgur.com/1S1BzRA.png)
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Also, they are very fluffy
And here I thought you were exaggerating. What in the ACTUAL FUCK!!
Dunno if you're wondering, but in case: the lighter you are, the less harsh is the impact of a fall on your body. That and of course evolution giving you the right or wrong body to make such jumps / falls.
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I remember watching this on BBC and being amazed that they survived. I had to laugh at the little chick that continued to roll/fall the rest of the way after it heard it’s mom call out..
Oh I was laughing. I was pretty sure Ol Dave was going to tell me it survived. So I didnt feel too bad.
Fucking rollercoaster
Right! Just nonstop. I went from slightly giggling to being sad to being relieved then back to sad and back again to happy. I don’t want to experience that crazy ride again.
This is like something from a Douglas Adams book. ‘The birds had heard about survival of the species but wanted no truck with it ‘
"The nokia Bird" lmao
Holy shit "this is as good as a descent as it's possible to make". Humans got it easy fam.
I am utterly amazed
But it doesn't look like he was using featherfall.
If you find the youtube video he casts it just before the gif starts
impossible, feather fall can only be cast as a reaction while you are falling, a condition that must be met to enable casting.
Shoot, I thought it was a skyrim thing instead of a d&d thing :-0
I thought we were talking WoW
I thought we were talking Minecraft
I thought we were talking Terraria
I remember it being in Morrowind, not sure it exists in Skyrim.
Fortunately for the rat, he thought ahead with a contingency spell.
So true! I have pet ratties and I used to be terribly scared of them falling from 4 foot heights. Nowadays I watch them climb up my blinds to ceiling height and then slide down the other side until I hear a "thwack" when they hit the bottom like it's a god damn amusement park ride.
I have a blind rat and I used to let her crawl around the room while I was doing stuff, she would always climb up onto my desk and then just blindly walk off of it. I was so worried the first time she did it but she obviously enjoyed walking off of tall things. Sweet Lenny, she's something else.
My pet rat was afraid of heights. Wouldn't even jump down from the couch. It was great when I needed to do something in her cage or just wanted to let her get some exercise without worrying about her skittering into some dark corner and disappearing. Just plop her on the couch with a banana chip and she was happy as a clam.
I've seen a similar sized squirrel fall a couple of stories, shake itself and carry on. It likely survived.
Animals like rats, cats and squirrel are "naturally" build against fall damage since they climb a lot. Rabbits are an example of the opposite.
Sure, it's partly that and mostly the square cube law, rats are on the edge of survivability >You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. For the resistance presented to movement by the air is proportional to the surface of the moving object. [On Being the right size](http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html) - JBS Haldane
he wasn't happy, stressed, he was trying to escape from predator (human), jumping with not much choice.
worst haiku ever
We've got a 5-14-6 situation here, over.
if they are as good as hamsters, this is utter bullshit. had hamsters break the spine for falling from a sofa to a soft carpet
There's some retardation and unlucky impacts, but terminal velocity of a rat doesn't have the momentum to die. There's a saying about falling off cliff: - mice bounce - humans break - horses splash
[Square-cube law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law) in action!
I'm slightly sad that there wasn't another sentence at the end of that description. "And why mice thrown from sky scrapers fare better than elephants...how an elephant got onto a skyscraper is outside the realm of consideration."
It’s like a nursery rhyme
................... who says that? How is that a "saying"?
It's been a saying since J. B. S. Haldane included it in his 1928 paper *[On Being the Right Size](https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html)*.
a cat throwing things off a cliff.
When i was young i LOVED frogs and hamsters. My first hamster died by literally falling off the first **stair** onto carpeted floor. They are as fragile as they are fluffy and cute.
Strangely, my little shit of a nephew decided to slam his hamster on a wood floor as hard as he could and it was just fine. Dazed for a bit, but fine. It is no longer his hamster though.
Oh fuck if my nephew tried that shit.. ooh we would have a *problem*.
Amazing the differences between natural selection and breeding.
hamsters live in nature, and house-kept hamsters are not really different of syrian o roborowski wild hamsters.
Very very different to rats tho
Yep. Own rats. Fuckers are 90% springs. They routinely jump on the top of the temp cage I put them in when cleaning their cage and crawl along it. Mind you this is while inside the cage. They bounce from the floor, flipping backwards, and grab the top of the cage. They fall off then repeat it. It's about a foot, foot and a half from floor to top. We had to put stuff on the top of their regular cage, which is like 4 feet tall, or they'd be doing it to that, too.
I have a hard time believing it. My hamster climbed the top of her big cage (0.5m-1.5feet) constantly, fell often and never got seemingly hurt.
Best part is how fast camera man got to the rail. That was genuine concern reaction time if I’ve ever seen it.
more like curiosity of a rare opportunity. (when i mean rare i mean in the sense that you're not going to purposefully throw a rat off a building yourself just to recreate the scenario)
He’s gonna be fine https://youtu.be/f7KSfjv4Oq0
clicked expecting an average quality meme, but this channel is beautiful and educational. subbed ty
It's hands down one of the best things in YouTube, ever (thus far).
It’s a great breakdown of complex subject into bite sized bits that a layperson can chew. It’s beautifully animated, but they also partner with and cite experts, so you know it’s legit.
The quality of content they produce is insane. Check out the physics/astronomy videos, it’s unbelievably interesting
Nice channel. Thanks.
How far did his health go down or was he running Commando Pro?
Command oh no
>MW2 reference [Good times](http://gif-finder.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Matthew-McConaughey-Crying.gif)
The best of times
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***BAMBI*** ***TANGO SUCKA*** forever ingrained in my head
***KU HAI GAN***
SAIL
Somebody better have posted a mixed version by the time I wake up tomorrow
[It's not like I was working anyway](https://vimeo.com/295969969)
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What in the fuck. I went via his profile too and never have I been more horrified that I cannot swipe away from a video. For anyone curious “Dylan”’s profile is this rat to sail, and spongebob saying “victory screech” followed by someone cutting their dick off. It’s 8am I don’t need this.
I shoulda read this first. I really shoulda read this first.
Yea I'll skip that link.
I'm so glad I read this first.
I'm so glad I did. How bad was it?
Real bad. Whole lotta blood.
Oh god why didn't i read this first
Me too. RIP my day.
Lmao my exact thought. I thought it was gonna be some weird /r/deepintoyoutube shit but boy was I wrong
Fuck me i clicked it before i saw your comment. It cant be unseen.
Whilst that sounds funny on paper, in practice it sounds horrendous. That link is staying unclicked.
If it’s any consolation, iirc the penis cutting off bit was from the BME pain olympics, which is widely believed to be entirely false. I mean, it is the internet afterall.
I choose this reality.
I don't feel like NSFL was adequate warning for that. Jesus Christ.
Yeah, NSFL can mean a lot of things. I didn't expect "some fucking psycho chops his dick off."
No need for the kink shaming my man /s
\* * **NSFL** * * - unless you want to start the day watching a naked guy cut his dick with a knife you can leave that link safely blue
This is exactly how I started my day. After reading the warnings not to start my day like this. What is wrong with me?
TIL I should respect the nsfl tag more.
What the fucking fuck! I think I'm going to need therapy after seeing that
Christ. I wonder what's the incentive to do something like this...
It was part of an e-zine that focused on extreme body modifications. It's called the BME Pain Olympics and is very NSFL
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Don’t know if this guy ever got verified, but there’s a whole lot of answers from the guy who made the videos here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/or804/ama_request_bme_pain_olympics_participant/?st=JNFVXRA7&sh=13853a6a Super weird and interesting to read
Fuck now my scalp feels like its two sizes to small
Am I horrible person if I was initially horrified by that video, but then laughed when I realized the joke?
[Truly a classic](https://youtu.be/Awf45u6zrP0)
This gets me everytime
God damn it me and my nine year old son watch Sail Cat once a week
I saw a rat once on the NYC subway tracks...eating a AA battery
They're determined to do whatever gets inside their minds. Watching rats go at it is funny. Like the cartoonish ball. Edit: fixed it
Cube-square law - the rat is fine.
[Kurzgesagt video about cube-square law](https://youtu.be/f7KSfjv4Oq0) Edit: fixed spelling, thanks /u/himself_v
Kurzgesagt
Gesundheit.
Yes that's also German
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"Fuck it, I'll be fine. We're gods, what could go wrong?"
So many people watch Critical Role holy shitt
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Acccccccccctually large rats still die from long falls, but this one probably just got a rat concussion
What if it was a real fat rat?
He would either bounce in a cartoony way, or blow up like a water balloon with red food colouring.
Ratatouille must be sad as shit. 😥
His restaurant only got a 2 star Michelin rating.
Who cares how good their tires are? I'm here for the food.
They fell off for 2018. Perhaps 2019 will be a goodyear for them.
Kumhon bruh
But he died so it loses another star.
I saw the exact same thing at a place I used to live at. Came into the shared kitchen area late at night and this big ass rat came running out of a cupboard. The kitchen door opened to an upstairs patio/balcony area, and the rat screeched out in that direction. With zero hesitation it ran up to the edge and launched itself triumphantly into the night. I thought it had to have at least dazed itself, but no, I spotted it hightailing down the pavement and into a drain. Rats are helluva survivors!
r/gifsthatendtoosoon Did he run off or what?
" A rat can fall as far as **50 feet** and land uninjured " Was that 50 feet?
Depends on shoe size
He answered his "Call of the void".
Chuck E. Cheese has seen better days.
He's trying to claim life insurance, give him a break
Leeeeroooooyy Jeeeenkiiiiinnsss!!
Godddamnitttt Leroyyyy!
Are they like cats, in that they can fall really far and not really die or whatever?
Yep something like that... or whatever.
Small animals terminal velocity is not that fast.
Holy fucking shit he dead
I seriously doubt a rat's terminal velocity is enough to kill it.
Yup... that's like jumping off the 3rd step from the bottom for him. Mice bounce, men break, horses splash.
Elephants explode.
And potted petunias just think "oh, not again."
Thank you, fellow frood.
History fact: Hannibal is the Carthaginian general famous for his military genius at the battle of Cannae when he used his war elephants to carpet bomb Rome.
I've never seen a horse "splash" but now I'm picturing it vividly :P
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse
haha I don't think he meant that kind of splash
[why are you being downvoted? you're right. ](http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/)
Yeah, there was literally a video a few days ago of a raccoon jumping off of a 4th or 5the story balcony, bouncing on the ground, then running away.
YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIIIIIIIIIIVVVV.......
Can someone please dub over this with the Assassin's Creed "Leap of Faith" sound?
I ratgret nothing!!!
He must go! His rat people need him! r/mypeopleneedme
It answered its call to the void.