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Wow. Very insightful, 'scientists' of Imperial Japan. (media.piefed.social)
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[โ€“] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the tests were largely shit like:

seriously this is the light shit."how much blood can we replace with antifreeze before someone dies?"

There isn't anything useful there. There isn't a real world application. This won't save a life. Its just pointless torture.

[โ€“] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

jokes on you when

spoilerThey figure out that's how you're meant to do cryogenetics/make artic warfare supersoldiers