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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While humans studying rats is routine, rats studying humans is definitely novel.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Well, it was a theme in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so not entirely novel.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd argue it's a literary novel. Maybe several.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

A trilogy of five novels.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

And yet entirely A novel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That was mice, not rats.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, I'm really curious about what the rats discovered.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

While you were studying rats, rats was studying the blade 🗡️

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

In Soviet Russia, rats study you!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

rats getting blazed on that K2

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Woman: Rats!