• Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    “Tested on mices” is the The biologist equivalent to the programmers “it works on my machine”

    If humanity ever perishes and the next dominant species ends up being mice, the discovery and translation of our research will usher in a utopian world for them.

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    Physics is mostly finding bugs in the existing physics model of the universe, then patching them

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      1 year ago

      Physicist spends a year observing moon to estimate it’s mass, only to rule out the theory that moon is made of Swiss cheese