Well, that was an odd dream.

[conuly]

If we knew the alien invasion was coming to harvest humans and eat us, why weren't we fighting back? Or hiding better? Or prepping in any way at all? And if it turned out that we could sate them with milk, why not just give them all the milk they like?

And where did all those kittens come from!?

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Comments

[hilarita]

And where did all those kittens come from!?

You see when a mummy cat and a daddy cat love each other very much... :D

Nah. Some Mad Scientist (TM) had the idea that cat milk would do to sate the aliens. And started up a massive cat breeding program. Now, as the Pratchett modification of the Schroedinger Theory states, when you have 10,000 cats in a box (even a large, well-lit laboratory of a box), they are Bloody Furious. They escaped from the lab when a careless and underpaid lab assistant left a door ajar one day, and the scientist only narrowly escaped sepsis from all the cat scratches.

[conuly]

You see when a mummy cat and a daddy cat love each other very much... :D

Sadly, I know too much about cats and the mating thereof to readily believe this one.

[hilarita]

This is sadly true for a good proportion of the natural world. I was a bit surprised when I found out about ducks, for instance.

[conuly]

Likewise.

[wendelah1]

That was a well-written, accessible article about antibiotic resistance. Thanks.

[conuly]

:)

[dine]

mysister has raised guide dogs for decades, and this article rang true to what she's said on occasion. she's had several dogs over the years flunk out of dog college and return to her, and they do make lovely pets

[conuly]

Aw!

[ayebydan]

Life is so shit that death by alien seems a legit option.

Kittens disagree and stage the revolt

[conuly]

There were so many kittens.

[isis]

Duh. Kittens ARE aliens.

[conuly]

Adorable fuzzy aliens.

[siderea]

The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's

WHOA.

But, but, but... If that's true, we could be training dogs or rats (like the landmine-sniffing hero rats of Africa) to do this NOW. It wouldn't even be hard. We don't have to wait for a machine! We don't need to know what compounds she's smelling to do it! (Though, yes, that is good to study too.) She proved she can diagnose Parkinson's from someone's clothing, which means if someone can supply trainers with clothes worn by people diagnosed, there you go.

[conuly]

I can barely train my dogs to stay. I don't know how hard it is. (Though those rats ARE heroes, and underappreciated, and people should snuggle them more.)

I don't know why they haven't started training dogs now that they know this woman can do this.

[conuly]

Strike some of that, they DO train dogs for this!

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/washington-dogs-trained-to-detect-parkinsons-disease/1002520683

[asakiyume]

Don't you love it when the solution to problems is as simple as milk? What a great dream :-)

[conuly]

I rarely say this, but there were just too many kittens.

[asakiyume]

Just think: from now on you will be able to explain to people in all earnestness that yes, it is possible to have too many.

[conuly]

There were hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats. Cats here, cats there, cats and kittens everywhere.

this many, huh?

[asakiyume]

Re: this many, huh?

[conuly]

That old man is clearly a hoarder-in-waiting. Good thing the kitties resolved that situation for him. In real life, hoarded cats have it even worse.

[adafrog]

Interesting...

[conuly]

So many kittens.