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I love that CERN has such a strong bond with their animals. They are even monitoring the quantum entanglements of their sheep: https://home.cern/news/news/cern

I love that CERN has such a strong bond with their animals. They are even monitoring the quantum entanglements of their sheep: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-scientists-find-evidence-quantum-entanglement-sheep https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-scientists-find-eviden...

perihelions 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545349 ("CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep (home.cern)"; April 1, 2025)
- outsideoftime 1y ago
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lokimedes 1y ago
And yet, not everything is so pretty at CERN. Just consider their Large Hamster Collider! It’s a travesty, and last I head, they were colliding billions of hamster per second. You also got to ask what they do with the resulting elephants and whatnot coming out of those relativistic collisions.
- ayaros 1y ago
  I'll do you one better: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-10-25 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-10-25
  - tempodox 1y ago
    I always suspected platypuses are the evolutionary equivalent of fake news. And now we know!
- jacquesm 1y ago
  Oh that's an easy one, they go to the Geneva Zoo and from there they get trafficked all over the world. It's essentially whitewashing of hamsters on an elephantine scale. We got one of those here as well, it looks like the real deal from a distance but up close the illusion falls apart. The thing that will get you is all the little eyes staring at you and the incessant mewing sounds.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y ago
  Hamsters can be kind of assholes though. At least my sister's hamster was one.
- kmoser 1y ago
  I remember when Outpost.com's initial gerbil collision tests led to public outcry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZIwetqq3H8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZIwetqq3H8
- shawn_w 1y ago
  I hope they're humanely harvesting their eyeballs for boba before putting them in the collider. Such a waste otherwise. https://img.ifunny.co/images/c736301a01cc03ff1f03dac1c8b87f7e4abedfd96c6507e8643e09e27c7283be_1.jpg https://img.ifunny.co/images/c736301a01cc03ff1f03dac1c8b87f7...

perihelions 1y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545349 ("CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep (home.cern)"; April 1, 2025)

outsideoftime 1y ago
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lokimedes 1y ago

And yet, not everything is so pretty at CERN. Just consider their Large Hamster Collider! It’s a travesty, and last I head, they were colliding billions of hamster per second. You also got to ask what they do with the resulting elephants and whatnot coming out of those relativistic collisions.

ayaros 1y ago
I'll do you one better: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-10-25 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-10-25
- tempodox 1y ago
  I always suspected platypuses are the evolutionary equivalent of fake news. And now we know!
jacquesm 1y ago
Oh that's an easy one, they go to the Geneva Zoo and from there they get trafficked all over the world. It's essentially whitewashing of hamsters on an elephantine scale. We got one of those here as well, it looks like the real deal from a distance but up close the illusion falls apart. The thing that will get you is all the little eyes staring at you and the incessant mewing sounds.
vjvjvjvjghv 1y ago
Hamsters can be kind of assholes though. At least my sister's hamster was one.
kmoser 1y ago
I remember when Outpost.com's initial gerbil collision tests led to public outcry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZIwetqq3H8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZIwetqq3H8
shawn_w 1y ago
I hope they're humanely harvesting their eyeballs for boba before putting them in the collider. Such a waste otherwise. https://img.ifunny.co/images/c736301a01cc03ff1f03dac1c8b87f7e4abedfd96c6507e8643e09e27c7283be_1.jpg https://img.ifunny.co/images/c736301a01cc03ff1f03dac1c8b87f7...