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Thank you! Almost anyone could have just made a cat's cradle reference. You went straight to the source and elevated the conversation in the process. >The stor

Thank you! Almost anyone could have just made a cat's cradle reference. You went straight to the source and elevated the conversation in the process. >The story "Polywater Doodle" by Howard L. Myers (writing under the pseudonym "Dr. Dolittle") appeared in the February 1971 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It features an animal composed entirely of polywater, with the metabolism described by Richard Feynman. (The title of the story is a pun on "Polly Wolly Doodle".) There's not a day that goes by that I don't wish Feyman was still alive to help slash through the nonsense.

traek 9y ago
> Thank you! Almost anyone could have just made a cat's cradle reference. You went straight to the source and elevated the conversation in the process. Polywater wasn't the "source" for Cat's Cradle. The book was published in 1963 and (per Wikipedia) the West didn't take notice of polywater until 1966 at the earliest.