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On Mars you wouldn't be able to have cabinets tall enough so that your cat can't jump on them
The cabinet could be 20 feet tall and they'd still figure out how to get up there.
My parents have 4 cats and these ones are a lot different than all of the other cats we've had over the decades. My parents have a wall mounted cabinet where the bottom portion is about 5 feet off the ground and the top of it is about 8 feet off the ground. There's about 6-9" between the top and the ceiling, and various decorations up there.. The kitchen table is about a foot in front of it, at normal height, about 3-4 feet from the ground.
One day I noticed one of the cats was on top of the cabinet! That's a good 6 foot jump at a steep angle (100°, 110°? I suck at Trig) and she didn't move a single decoration!
An 8 foot leap is no big deal.
Vertically it is. That's about 6-8x their body length.
Horizontally it's nothing special.
I wonder what the maximum size is of a celestial body which a cat could jump with escape velocity
I got bored and was curious myself.
Assuming a cat can jump just over 2m (record is around 7' apparently) then you have a launch velocity of around 6.5m/s. Plugging this in as an escape velocity works out to around a 1-2km diameter asteroid. Not huge, but not bad for a small animal.
My error bars are quite large, so it's only an order of magnitude calculation.
Yeah thats not bad, assuming the asteroid is a perfect sphere, that comes out to a surface area of 12km^2^ for an interstellar cat colony that can move into orbit at will.
...same as earth if your cats are siamese...