huh, this story is really old and of dubious origin but afaict the original websites are down and I can’t be bothered going into archives.
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chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months agoThe diet experiment is presented as present tense. The cat smell experiment is described with “I once ran an experiment”, part of the speaker’s “thesis”, which is in the past. They are clearly keeping #42 alive to be used in totally separate research, in this fictional The Onion esque scenario.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 10 months ago
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 10 months ago
It could be made up. Probably really.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I found a source that includes the second half which makes it more obvious: