Well, at least you now know how the Stimulus funds were spent.
BTW, I ran my own test without any Stimulus funding.
I keep two water bowls side by side on a tray in the corner of my den/office for my cats (this is their only source of water except for a slowly dripping tap and the toilet bowls). In one, I pour water from the faucet and in the other I pour only filtered water (Brita). I have 5 cats and they drink a lot of water collectively. Both bowls are changed and cleaned daily.
Results: The one with the faucet water never gets used...and the one with filtered water is almost always half-full each morning.
” “4 engineers with not a hell of a lot to do.”
“Well, at least you now know how the Stimulus funds were spent.” “
They were probably working diligently to ‘prove’ that cats (but only cats owned by humans) cause GW - and this was just a serendipitous side-discovery... ;)
BTW - my cat won’t touch bottled water — it’s tap water or nothing for him.... ;)
The project required no financing. The robot that mimicked the cat’s tongue was built for an experiment on the International Space Station, and the engineers simply borrowed it from a neighboring lab.
Funny. Our cat is just the opposite. She has a dish in the kitchen with filtered water - only drinks from in at night, when she’s blocked from the end of the house with her other bowl. The bowl next to the sink in the bathroom is unfiltered - and she begs for that second thing in the morning. (First thing is more food, of course.)
You should submit a bill to Brita for that study!