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Yoda The Mouse Turns 4

Posted by timothy on from the beats-dog-years dept.

ChiralSoftware writes "Through some genetic engineering to reduce insulin output, Yoda the mouse has lived to over four years old, equivalent to 136 human years. Yoda is a third smaller than normal, and gets cold all the time so he must snuggle up with Princess Leia, his cage-mate, but he is alive and full of vigor at the ripe old age of 4. Who's next for insulin reduction?"

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  1. Yoda by dont_think_twice · · Score: 3, Funny

    Four years old, and he can still jump around do all those backflips? That is amazing.

    1. Re:Yoda by knightPhlight · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd be jumping around too, if I were sleeping with Princess Leia. Think golden bikini...

  2. Of Mice and Men... by phraktyl · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh sure, the mouse gets a reduction in insulin, and he's still going strong after twice his normal life span.

    And here, I don't produce insulin---found out I had Type I diabetes when I was 22---and do I get twice the life span? Heck no. I'll be lucky to make 50 at the rate I'm going.

    What's up with that? Damned mice.

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  3. Hell no by waytoomuchcoffee · · Score: 2, Funny

    No way in hell would I want to be full of vigor at 136 and snuggling up to Princess Leia every day, especially if she was wearing her Return of the Jedi outfit.

  4. Lucky Bastard by Aoverify · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Yoda is still mobile, sexually active and "looking good," said Dr. Richard A. Miller"

    Still sexually active? If I could live to the ripe old age of 136, I bet nobody in the world would have sex with me.

    1. Re:Lucky Bastard by a+whoabot · · Score: 3, Funny

      People have sex with donkeys and the dead. I'm sure you can find someone who would have sex with you.

    2. Re:Lucky Bastard by orthogonal · · Score: 5, Funny

      Still sexually active? If I could live to the ripe old age of 136, I bet nobody in the world would have sex with me.

      Old age had nothing to do with it.

      You post on Slashdot, by age 136 you'll have had 136 years to get used to not getting sex.

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  5. come on, someone has to say it by secolactico · · Score: 5, Funny

    "When four years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?"

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  6. Sub-etha by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Funny

    Still, I don't think this will save us from the Vogons.

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  7. That's nothing! by flikx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wasn't Mr. Jingles just over 70 years old? That 4 year old mouse has a lot of catching up to do.

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  8. How is this not in the Main section? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is a factual story that involves,

    1) Star Wars,
    2) A steamy encounter between Yoda and Princess Leah,

    and especially

    3) A genetic modification that allows sexual prowess for nearly two standard lifetimes (and counting!).

  9. Hah by psyconaut · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Yoda's cage mate, Princess Leia, is a much larger female who uses her body warmth to keep the dwarf mouse from freezing to death. "

    I used the same excuse with my ex-gf....."snuggle me with your ample bossom, or I'll freeze to death!" ;-)
    -psy