Makes me think of The Thing.

It is true, because any institution is only as good as the members of it’s faculty, which are all subject to corruption and death. Things can change in an instant that might completely topple even our greatest and most popular institutions.

Mallarduana. Preferably via aqualung.

There’s considerable overlap in the animal kingdom between predator and prey. Being a predator doesn’t make you an apex predator.

Being too low to slow a descent doesn’t seem like a logical concept unless we’re talking about deploying parachutes. If a cat is capable of slowing down it’s fall, it doesn’t need to exceed the speed it can slow itself to. How could such technique slow you down from an unacceptable speed, but not prevent you from reaching that speed? It doesn’t make sense.