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CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice (2011)

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348 points EbNar | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 06:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tempodox ◴[18 Sep 25 09:45 UTC] No.45287631[source]▶
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-eviden...
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lokimedes ◴[18 Sep 25 10:31 UTC] No.45287935[source]▶
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.

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1. jacquesm ◴[18 Sep 25 13:36 UTC] No.45289532[source]▶
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.