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[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 5 months ago

"Tested on mices" is the The biologist equivalent to the programmers "it works on my machine"

If humanity ever perishes and the next dominant species ends up being mice, the discovery and translation of our research will usher in a utopian world for them.

[-] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

They'd resurrect humans just to brutally torture us in vengeance.

[-] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But why, we put up a statue in Russia to acknowledge their sacrifice

[-] Pips@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but it's in Akademgorodok when it should be in Mousecow.

[-] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

There is a replica in mousecow, near the original master and margarita bar, or at least there was.

[-] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Akademgorodok

Bless you

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 7 points 5 months ago

But only if they recreate laboratory conditions as well and then it wouldn't really be a utopia

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

a utopia for agoraphobic mice

[-] Lotarion@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago

Physics is mostly finding bugs in the existing physics model of the universe, then patching them

[-] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago

More like finding bugs and exploiting the hell out of them.

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago

I thought that was engineering

"this amount of bridge material should collapse under its own weight, but we made it into arches/triangles and now it doesn't ๐Ÿ‘"

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

Physicist spends a year observing moon to estimate it's mass, only to rule out the theory that moon is made of Swiss cheese

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I feel like physics is to the universe, as the lore of a Dark Souls game is to the gameplay. The universe is already built, and physicists just come up with the lore to explain the mechanics after the fact.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Source

Votey is unrelated though

this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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