IgNobel Prize awarded for research on the fluidity of cats

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Fun Fact: Marc Antoine Fardin earned himself the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize in physics for research on the fluidity of cats.

Here's a link for more info:
http://ens-lyon.fr/en/article/research/marc-antoine-fardin-recipient-2017-ig-nobel-prize-physics#:~:text=Marc%2DAntoine%20Fardin%20has%20been,and%20then%20make%20them%20think.

[PoliticAverse]

1. Waste of money. Everyone knows cats are liquids...

https://www.thephotomag.com/2013/08/20-evidence-that-cats-are-liquids.html

[Hotler]

2. Makes sense to me.

Marc-Antoine Fardin: "I highlight some of the recent developments around the rheology of Felis catus, with potential applications for other species of the felidae family. In the linear rheology regime many factors can enter the determination of the characteristic time of cats: from surface effects to yield stress. In the nonlinear rheology regime flow instabilities can emerge. Nonetheless, the flow rate, which is the usual dimensional control parameter, can be hard to compute because cats are active rheological materials."