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🐙 octopodes 🐙 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Who thinks about giving an octopus ecstasy??

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Jacobs is a professor at the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and in 1976 he and a team from the university’s psychology department set out to study how LSD affected felines. That might seem like a bizarre research topic, but hey, it was 1976, they had this acid, they had these cats—what else were they going to do?

Lots of wild experiments giving drugs to animals.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Sure, let's write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The crack spider's bitch, Environment Canada Wildlife Service.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's a classic. I love how it starts serious and then goes into absurdity really fast. Like when the 'crack spider thinks building webs is for suckas and he just waits for the caffeine spider to tire out before busting a cap in his ass...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Scientists

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Scientists smart enough to get approval for buying ecstasy for research purposes!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

and then you have the ones that give LSD to dolphins and jerking them off

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

She wasn't even a scientist. She just kinda showed up, made friends with the research facility, and convinced them to let her try teaching the dolphin to speak.

Ironically her "method" did start to show some success

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You know stories about Hofmann taking some bike trip while being high.