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[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

A trilogy of five novels.

[–] oillut@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

And yet entirely A novel

[–] Perhyte@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That was mice, not rats.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Shialac@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] CyberTailor@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

In Soviet Russia, rats study you!!

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Woman: Rats!