ChaoticMusings

Digger wrote:

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The “Universe 25” experiment is one of the most unsettling experiments in science history. In the 1960s, scientist John B. Calhoun built what looked like a perfect world for mice: unlimited food, unlimited water, nesting material, and no predators.

At first, the colony exploded. The mice reproduced quickly, and the experiment looked like a utopia. Then the perfect world began to rot from the inside. As the space became crowded, the mice became aggressive, isolated, and unable to live normally. Some males stopped fighting for territory. Some females stopped caring for their babies. Others attacked their own young.

Then a strange group appeared. Calhoun called them “the beautiful ones.” They did not fight. They did not mate. They did not raise young. They only ate, slept, and groomed themselves. Eventually, the birth rate dropped to zero. Every newborn mouse died. Even with unlimited food, water, and safety, the colony went extinct.

The experiment became famous because it showed something disturbing: a society can collapse even when it has everything it needs to survive.

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 Sounds !like earth