[thedailymail]

I bet a human egg would survive undamaged even when dropped from 30,000 feet.

(Following Haldane's observation that "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. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.")

[dilawar]

Thanks for quoting Haldane. I need to reread that excellent essay "on being the right size".