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struggle4progress

(118,273 posts)
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 07:47 PM Nov 2018

The official "What really happened to Assange's cat?" discussion thread!

This is a modern quantum conundrum puzzle!

You lock Kitty into a tiny embassy with the intelligent but unpredictable and paranoid Hacker, and add some embassy staff whose diplomatic skills include general politeness and hygiene abilities apparently foreign to the hacker

Weary of cleaning up behind both Kitty and Hacker, the embassy staff eventually obtains an official okie-dokie to warn Hacker that they will donate Kitty to a nearby Home for Neglected Felines unless Hacker cleans behind Kitty

And then ... a mystery! Kitty disappears! Hacker says he set Kitty free for humanitarian reasons, but what does that really mean? Are Swedish Saudi-Arabian feminists behind the disappearance? Has Kitty been extradited to the US and executed there for treason? We do not know. Perhaps Bigfoot had Kitty for a snack!

The possibilities, however, are endless; and you can discuss the endless possibilities here, though probably not endlessly

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The official "What really happened to Assange's cat?" discussion thread! (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2018 OP
the kitty that "knew too much" hlthe2b Nov 2018 #1
Kitty snuffed in joint operation by Russian Federal Security Service and CIA! struggle4progress Nov 2018 #2
Code name orangecrush Nov 2018 #5
lol Cha Nov 2018 #24
The cat orangecrush Nov 2018 #3
I saw a documentary about this years ago. dewsgirl Nov 2018 #11
same here! orangecrush Nov 2018 #18
I think it was on Youtube. dewsgirl Nov 2018 #20
Kitty ran off with Pavlov's Dog... First Speaker Nov 2018 #4
And the cat came back, the very next day... libdem4life Nov 2018 #6
Russian Mole. No, wait, he ate the Russian mole and left the head on the FSogol Nov 2018 #7
It got walnut sauced. Scurrilous Nov 2018 #8
Somebody grabbed that pussy. betsuni Nov 2018 #9
... orangecrush Nov 2018 #23
He sent the cat to live with his (Assange's) family. frogmarch Nov 2018 #10
Perfect that this article comes from RT. Who knows where this cat actually wound up. dewsgirl Nov 2018 #13
I hope this true Raine Nov 2018 #16
Assange's lawyers say they have been stopped from seeing him at Embassy struggle4progress Nov 2018 #17
Uh huh, RT. right. Cha Nov 2018 #25
There's an article over at The Daily Beast... DonViejo Nov 2018 #12
No internet has to be killing him. dewsgirl Nov 2018 #14
He is Mueller's kitty now denbot Nov 2018 #15
SNAP! Cha Nov 2018 #26
Kitty is in a box with polonium ProudLib72 Nov 2018 #19
Great minds think alike!! LOL! nt PCIntern Nov 2018 #22
Schrodinger's Cat analogy: PCIntern Nov 2018 #21
Did we spawn an alternative universe where HRC won the election? DBoon Nov 2018 #27
 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
6. And the cat came back, the very next day...
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 08:00 PM
Nov 2018

just a bit of a lighthearted break from an old elementary school teacher..



On Edit...my gray tabby approved this message.

frogmarch

(12,153 posts)
10. He sent the cat to live with his (Assange's) family.
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 08:28 PM
Nov 2018
https://www.rt.com/news/445009-assange-sends-embassy-cat-away/

According to Assange’s legal team, his Ecuadorian hosts have also threatened to place his beloved cat in a pound. No doubt knowing the toll imprisonment and isolation takes on a being, Assange had his lawyers deliver the kitty to his family.

“They will be united in freedom,” wrote legal team member Hanna Jonasson.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
13. Perfect that this article comes from RT. Who knows where this cat actually wound up.
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 08:46 PM
Nov 2018

I liked his photos with the cat wearing silly ties.

struggle4progress

(118,273 posts)
17. Assange's lawyers say they have been stopped from seeing him at Embassy
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 10:12 PM
Nov 2018

By BRENDAN MCFADDEN
PUBLISHED: 10:40 EST, 25 November 2018 | UPDATED: 11:20 EST, 25 November 2018

... Assange's lawyers, Aitor Martinez and Jen Robinson have been refused entry to the embassy this weekend, WikiLeaks tweeted ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6426867/Julian-Assanges-lawyers-say-stopped-seeing-Ecuadorian-Embassy.html

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
12. There's an article over at The Daily Beast...
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 08:43 PM
Nov 2018

It's about Assange and his life in the consulate; kitty has "disappeared," Assange has lost some weight, looks like hell, unkempt. He's not allowed outside at all... even though the consulate has a private courtyard. No internet, no media.

Sounds like a really swell life.

PCIntern

(25,519 posts)
21. Schrodinger's Cat analogy:
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 10:36 PM
Nov 2018

The cat is alive in the box or dead in the box. Looking into the box may change the outcome.


Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor (e.g. Geiger counter) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.


So: is Assange dead? Are Hillary’s emails relevant? Does Orange Fatfuk go to jail?

DBoon

(22,354 posts)
27. Did we spawn an alternative universe where HRC won the election?
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 01:49 AM
Nov 2018
The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "world" (or "universe&quot . In layman's terms, the hypothesis states there is a very large—perhaps infinite[2]—number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes. The theory is also referred to as MWI, the relative state formulation, the Everett interpretation, the theory of the universal wavefunction, many-universes interpretation, multiverse theory or just many-worlds.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
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