Friday Cephalopod: Two worlds meet

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   Brownian

   29 June 2012 at 8:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Silly PZ. Cats are some of the most scientifically minded creatures alive. They’re continually making observations, testing and retesting hypotheses. They take nothing for granted.

   Just yesterday, my cat decided to once again verify previous experimental results that strongly suggest he’s not allowed on the counter, and indeed, yesterday’s results support the theory that he’s not allowed on the counter. But he’ll verify those results again tomorrow, I guarantee it.

   That’s some rigor.

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   michaeld

   29 June 2012 at 8:52 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Bah culinary interests are often just a cruder form of scientific interest.

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   timgueguen

   29 June 2012 at 9:07 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Actually they’re consulting on the current status of the joint octopus/cat conquest of humankind.

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   Audley Z Darkheart, ass-sociologist extraordinaire

   29 June 2012 at 9:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Brownian:

   That’s some rigor.
   

   Just like my cats, except they’re continually testing how much they can eat before they barf.

   I thought turtles and kittehs were THE CUTEST FRIENDS EVER! But I retract that, because clearly kittehs and octopodes are OMG EVEN CUTER!

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   Doc Bill

   29 June 2012 at 9:28 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Looky, looky!

   ZOMG!! Kitties!!!!

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   tierra de antilopes

   29 June 2012 at 10:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Is it just me, or the cephaLOLpod is inserting it’s tentacle in the cats nose in order to reach to his brain, control it, and dominate the world with a newly achieved mammalian cuteness?

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   tierra de antilopes

   29 June 2012 at 10:12 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   (I totally stole the “cephaLOLpod” from @proterozoic: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/06/22/friday-cephalopod-begging-for-the-lolcephalopod-treatment/#comments)

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   mythbri

   29 June 2012 at 10:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Cats do science. In fact, many of them have dual-emphases in Physics and Biology. I remember that my cat conducted countless dissection experiments on the local rodent population, as well as doing practical demonstrations of physics – particularly, her clever use of gravity to jump from the house roof onto unsuspecting members of the household.

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   Gnumann, quisling of the MRA nation

   29 June 2012 at 10:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   The first one kinda reminds me of the saddest of songs

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    Pierce R. Butler

    29 June 2012 at 11:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    No discussion of cat science is complete without reference to Fritz Leiber’s “Space-Time for Springers”, in which the narrator conclusively demolishes the presupposition that in order to move from one point to another, one must necessarily cross the space in between.

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    magistramarla

    29 June 2012 at 12:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Kitty is thinking – “mmmm, calamari”.

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    Susannah

    29 June 2012 at 1:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Brownian,
    All it takes is one white crow … But you might have to look at a lot of crows.

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    anuran

    29 June 2012 at 3:42 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I can haz tentacoo wape?

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    andrewriding

    30 June 2012 at 11:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I also felt like a MOST unholy union was being suggested. Stuff of nightmares that, or maybe bad acid trips, I’m not very explored in terms of mind altering states.

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    Happiestsadist

    3 July 2012 at 10:18 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    What the fuck, Anuran?