Althouse: "There's a statue in Russia..."

March 30, 2020

"There's a statue in Russia..."

What a great way to show them some respect from r/nextfuckinglevel

22 comments:

David-2 said...: No question about it that's a great monument.

My personal favorite monument stands in the Public Garden, Boston: Monument Commemorating the Discovery of the Use of Ether in Anesthesia..

There should be more monuments to science. And engineering too, for that matter, though for engineering the bridges, buildings, flyovers on the large scale, and the contents of your iPhone, hearing aid, pacemaker on the very small scale, are probably sufficient.; 3/30/20, 10:54 AM
Temujin said...: Or they could put up a statue of a Ukrainian to commemorate the millions of Ukrainians starved by the Soviets so that Stalin's collectivization of farms would proceed the way he wanted it to.

They've got much more they need to honor than a mouse.; 3/30/20, 10:57 AM
Kevin said...: Mice capable of knitting DNA should not be sacrificed.

Someone had to say it.; 3/30/20, 10:57 AM
JPS said...: Slartibartfast: These creatures you call mice you see are not quite as they appear, they are merely the protrusions into our dimension of vast, hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings. The business with the cheese and squeaking is just a front.

Arthur: A front?

Slartibartfast: Oh yes, you see the mice set up the whole Earth business, as an epic experiment in behavioural psychology; a ten-million year program -

Arthur: No, look, you’ve got it the wrong way round. It was us. We used to do the experiments on them.

Slartibartfast: A ten-million year program in which your planet Earth and its people formed the matrix of an organic computer. I gather that the mice did arrange for you humans to conduct some primitively staged experiments on them just to check how much you’d really learned, to give you the odd prod in the right direction, you know the sort of thing: suddenly running down the maze the wrong way; eating the wrong bit of cheese; or suddenly dropping dead of myxomatosis.

- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; 3/30/20, 11:06 AM
Fernandinande said...: Mr. Quibble says, "The mice didn't sacrifice their lives, their lives were sacrificed by humans."; 3/30/20, 11:08 AM
Freeman Hunt said...: I like it.; 3/30/20, 11:13 AM
elkh1 said...: Much better than statues honoring politicians.; 3/30/20, 11:41 AM
mockturtle said...: I like it, too. Lab mice everywhere should be proud.; 3/30/20, 11:55 AM
Breezy said...: The glasses and shawl are a nice touch!; 3/30/20, 12:19 PM
rehajm said...: If the statue is a depiction of those patented lab mice there's probably a legal issue there...; 3/30/20, 12:23 PM
Openidname said...: I'm sure the mice appreciate it. Especially the dead ones.; 3/30/20, 12:23 PM
Kevin said...: Mauschwitz; 3/30/20, 12:28 PM
n.n said...: Of mice and babies.; 3/30/20, 12:29 PM
Darkisland said...: I thought it was Yoda

Still, as someone else said, better than a politician

John Henry; 3/30/20, 12:38 PM
Howard said...: Guinea pigs not impressed; 3/30/20, 12:51 PM
Anthony said...: Kevin said...
Mauschwitz

3/30/20, 12:28 PM

*dying*

End of thread.; 3/30/20, 1:53 PM
campy said...: "Gee, Brain, what are we going to do tonight?"; 3/30/20, 1:55 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: I agree with Darkisland. It looks more like Yoda than any rat I've ever seen.; 3/30/20, 3:04 PM
MadTownGuy said...: It's Fievel Mouskewitz.; 3/30/20, 4:38 PM
Josephbleau said...: I like the monument next to the library at the Univ of Chicago campus located at the site of the squash court were the CP1 reactor was assembled and went critical. It’s a smallish Ton of brass shaped like a mushroom cloud with some subtle hidden evil face on it. Pretty cool to imagine standing in the location of the first demonic nuclear inferno, generating almost a kilowatt.; 3/30/20, 6:23 PM
Josephbleau said...: I’ll bet the devastating power of the CP1 reactor made the whole campus area uninhabitable for thousands of years. It was actually hauled away and buried in a nature park a few miles away, it’s grave is marked there yet.; 3/30/20, 6:28 PM
Tom T. said...: The Russian scientist who put a dog onto a one-way trip into space back in the 60s has stated that he regrets having done so.

https://www.thedodo.com/amphtml/laika-space-dog-1092711354.html; 3/30/20, 10:19 PM

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