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Over the course of four weeks I've been trying to explain to the vet that one of my kittens has a respiratory issue, to no avail. Finally took a video of a liquid sneezing fit with me to show. She wasn't completely convinced, but she finally put him on antibiotics.

When we get home, he started in on another sneezing fit. He shot a half inch long solid snotrocket across the bathroom. Wish he'd done THAT at the vet's...
 
A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour.

Is the cat alive, dead, or both in the chamber?
 
A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour.

Is the cat alive, dead, or both in the chamber?

I dont know, ask Schrodinger...
 
A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour.

Is the cat alive, dead, or both in the chamber?

If it was Milo - he could probably blow the door off the chamber with his sneezes...
 
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