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The secret fourth kind is ‘we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.’

https://explainxkcd.com/2977/

  • PlexSheep
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    21 days ago

    There is also “We did nothing of value”

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      21 days ago

      Aka “we applied a standard theory to standard circumstances and got the expected result” - one can argue it does help in a way by providing another dataset although it didn’t really accomplish anything it can be useful for student research projects in that field.

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        21 days ago

        No I meant wasting time with useless stuff