Rat attempts a daring escape by trying to take flight for safety.

Rest of us: “How do you know so much about rats?” Fritzkreig: “Well, you have to know these thing when you’re a kreig.”

Of all the Monty Python and the Holy Grail jokes, this is the only one I hadn’t seen referenced online before when I first watched it last year.

A little of both. Guess one could say he’s bin laden.

How are you so wise in terms of rats?

You have to know these things when you’re a rat-king.

That’s no ordinary rat. That’s the most foul, cruel and bad-tempered rodent you’ve ever set eyes on. Look, that rat has a vicious streak a mile wide. It’s a killer. It’s got huge, sharp… It can leap about… Look at the bones!

JeeE**EE**esus Christ!

One, two, FIVE! Three, sir! THREE!

O’ Lord, bless this Thy Hand Grenade, that with it Thou mayst blow Thy enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy. And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and slothes, and carps, and and anchovies, and orangutans, and fruit bats, and breakfast cereals…

Skip a bit brother

He calls himself Rat-King hey, I dont remember voting for you.

Skaven fuckery intesifies

Just started playing warhammer 3. This video is quite soothing. Fuck them rats

Some people know their family tree really well

Descendants of Hamato Yoshi, I’m sure

His mother was a hamster and his father smells of elderberries”

Actually the rat I think has a pretty good chance to survive that fall because of mass/surface area ratio it’s terminal velocity gives it good chances to survive: https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3b99df412887f4ba5fb53e4359b5c14d TLDR: below stolen from the internet. Terminal velocity happens when the forces on a falling object cancel out. The force of the air on the object pushes upwards; the acceleration of gravity speeds it up downwards. When those forces are equal, the object is at terminal velocity. Cats *can* survive a fall from any height, but they often don’t. There have been cases of cats surviving a fall at terminal velocity, and they are relatively common. A few survived uninjured; most were injured, some were killed. Let’s say a cat chases a mouse off a high-rise building. Who’s better off, and why? Well, we don’t know exactly how many cats survive falls from terminal velocity, because the only studies that have been done were done by vet’s offices. Naturally the only cats that would be brought in to a vet’s office would be the ones that survived the fall. That selection bias means we don’t know exactly how likely a cat is to survive a terminal-velocity fall, because we didn’t actually get to look at all cats who fell from that height. (Needless to say, our sense of ethics keeps us from throwing cats off buildings to remedy this gap in the data.) Terminal velocity: Vt=√2mgρACd Let’s look at that terminal velocity equation. If you’re not the mathy sort, just remember that when you’re looking at a fraction, the things on top make the total quantity (velocity) bigger, and the things on bottom make it smaller. The interesting parts, the ones different between a falling cat and a falling mouse, are the mass on the top of the equation and the surface area on the bottom of the equation, like so: Vt∝√mA The bigger the animal, the higher its terminal velocity. However, the larger the surface area of the animal, the lower its terminal velocity. (This, by the way, is how parachutes work: They increase your “surface area” by the size of the parachute, slowing your terminal velocity to a survivable speed.) So who’s better off when falling, a large animal or a small animal? Well, think about the square-cube law. A cube ten inches on a side has a surface area of 600 square inches and a volume of 1000 cubic inches (6:10 ratio); a cube a hundred inches on a side has a surface area of sixty thousand and a volume of one million (6:100 ratio). As an object gets bigger, the volume increases much faster than the surface area. That means that increasing the animal’s size will, in general, increase its terminal velocity even though its surface area increases too. Then there’s another issue: The force of the sudden stop at the end of the fall. Let’s say you fall onto unyielding concrete. The energy in the collision has to do with the momentum of the falling object. p=mv The more massive the object is, and the faster it’s going, the more momentum it has: The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Here we’re talking about an inelastic collision (when two things hit each other without bouncing), so when the object suddenly goes from its terminal velocity to zero, all of the momentum that the object had goes into the energy of the collision. Back to surface area again. Remember: A large object has a small surface area in relation to its volume. The energy of the collision with the ground is distributed over the animal’s surface area—but how much energy that is, is related to the animal’s volume, and thus to its mass, because we’re assuming all the animals in our problem are pretty much equal in density, made mostly of water. So not only is the cat’s terminal velocity faster than the mouse’s, but because it has a higher mass, it suffers more force per square inch of area when it lands than the mouse does. Of course, the quality of the landing surface changes things, too. Some surfaces will soak up the energy of a collision much more easily than others, softening the fall. That’s why you can jump from a high-rise building into a firefighters’ net and expect to survive: When you fall into the net, the energy of your fall goes into stretching the net. And then there’s luck. What’s the cat landing on? Will it hit its head? Did it bounce off the building on its way down? Did it happen to break a rib in just the right way to puncture its vital organs? How far are you from the nearest veterinary clinic? Yes, landing on its feet certainly can help the cat survive—feline legs make excellent shock-absorbers—but it’s not guaranteed, and the joints are likely to be injured or the legs fractured. The cat’s chin is likely to slam into the ground, giving it a broken jaw and teeth and possibly a concussion. The lungs are easily bruised or punctured by broken ribs. Vets call this “high-rise syndrome”. But it remains that cats regularly do survive falls from terminal velocity; humans do not. A very small animal, such as a mouse, is likely to survive without injury—but at the same time, mice have been known to die from being dropped onto the floor by a careless child. What we have here isn’t a hard-and-fast boundary between survivable and unsurvivable falls; we have more of a change in probability, like so: At high weights, like the cow and the human, survival is highly unlikely. The sheer force of the landing is so great that the falling animal simply won’t survive no matter how good it is at landing—but every once in a while, somebody gets very, very lucky (like flight attendant Vesna Vulović, who fell from thirty-three thousand feet and survived), usually because they are landing in an unusually lucky way on unusually soft ground. At low weights, like the mouse and the ant, survival is highly likely. The force of the landing is too low to do much damage. The unlucky few do die from falls because they landed unusually badly on an unusually hard surface. If a child drops their pet mouse headfirst onto a linoleum floor, the mouse usually survives completely unhurt—but sometimes, the mouse has very bad luck. In the middle, with the dog or the cat, it’s interesting. Here, the animal’s chances of survival are a toss-up, because the force of the impact is severe enough to kill, but it’s not so extreme that it will kill no matter how well one lands. Here, cats have the advantage partly because they are smaller than the medium-sized dog, but also because they have a righting reflex that will put their feet under them—a safer position to fall in than most, for a cat. There’s even the possibility that the air may push at the underside of a cat, flattening it out into a sort of mini-parachute which can increase the cat’s surface area somewhat, maybe making a difference in the speed of its fall. This is the range where one wants to be skilled at falling in order to survive a fall. Because they naturally climb and jump while hunting, and are big enough to need to perfect the skill of falling safely, cats are as well-adapted to falling out of high-rise buildings as any non-flying animal their size could be. But, no matter how skilled, a cat’s mass is still enough to make falling dangerous. So if our hapless cat were to chase our unlucky mouse off that high-rise building, we’d still have a cat that if it’s lucky, will be going to the vet’s office, while the mouse scurries happily away, unharmed.

Only those cats were bought to veterinary who were injured. The rest were healthy.

Someone give this man an award

For copy/pasting a ChatGPT reply?