Can a mouse survive a fall from a high-rise? Probably. In a fantastic essay from 1928 the biologist J.B.S. Haldane famously explained: 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...
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