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Cats are liquid (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

As proven in this 2017 paper that was awarded an Ig-Nobel prize.

EDIT: Aw crap, sorry for the broken link. Quote from the source:

PHYSICS PRIZE [FRANCE, SINGAPORE, USA] — Marc-Antoine Fardin, for using fluid dynamics to probe the question “Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?”

REFERENCE: “On the Rheology of Cats,” Marc-Antoine Fardin, Rheology Bulletin, vol. 83, 2, July 2014, pp. 16-17 and 30. (https://improbable.com/ig/winners/?amp=1#ig2017)

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Hm? It's blank and uBlock treat it as about:blank?

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sry, improved the comment.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

Appreciated.

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Sry, improved the comment.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

It seems to be a blank page that starts the download of the pdf article (in another target, in a pop-up, or something like that - I didn't look at the source). Something on your browser blocked the download.