>>>If we truly are not made of "solid stuff" it's a darned good thing I didn't go into physics, because it would be way over my head. Sometimes I think they're just making it up.
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>>So, ask yourself this: How does a vacuum fluctuate?
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>>I've heard that nature abhors vacuums and I assume that's true, but from my own experience I can only state for certain that I know cats hate them.
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>Especially when their tails get sucked into the hose.

When I was living in Edmonton, a friend of mine had a cat, and he kept a hand vacuum in a drawer in the living room. Whenever he opened that drawer, the cat knew what was coming and it used to run to the middle of the room, fall over on it's back and spread out. It loved being vacuumed by that little hand vacuum. I never saw anything like it (well, except it, of course).