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Alive, Dead, or Bloody Furious?

By drorzel on June 4, 2007.

The LOLcat phenomenon has reached the world of physics, with this Schrödinger cat picture, which is pretty good. I'm also amused by Serge's poem from Making Light:

Roses are red,

Violets are blue.

Is Schrödinger's Cat dead?

That remains up to you.

I may need to get out more.

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