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Human Animal Hybrid Created in Lab
guanno writes "National Geographic has an article stating that... "Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras--a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal."
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Oh great. Here come the furries.
Sign me up for the first CatDog produced!
a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal. oh my god, they've cloned my relatives
God shmod, I want my monkeyman!
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
HUMANIMAL
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Generally, bash is superior to python in those environments where python is not installed.
And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.
/-McK
Yes and the answer is 42.
Microsoft already perfected this years ago.
Sweet. I can sit back and let that sucker go STRAIGHT to the pr0n. clickety, clickety
were combined and, to their delight, the U.S. IT industry has created the long-awaited "Code Monkey": it writes Java code but works for peanuts.
Haven't these people seen enough bad sci-fi movies to know that this is a horrible idea? Just like the story a couple of months ago about the armed autonomous robots...
When will these people learn?
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Or imagine a penguin (named Tux, naturally) debating Bill Gates on the virtues of their respective OSes. Of course, we'd also need a Dr. Zoidberg as part of the peanut gallery - you know, variety and such.
I have 1 million monkeys on a million year contract to make me a better sig.
Now that I don't have to worry about waking up in a bathtub full of ice with only one kidney. Since we can just grow them in some chimera monstrosity.
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
*sigh* when will those scientists ever learn? ;)
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
A petri dish is ever so slightly different from a goat-lion-serpant or a girlfriend with the head of a shark.
I take it there's no such thing as too much teeth for you...
Isn't that irony though?
Everyone knows that mice created Earth to compute the answer to the Ultimate Question of life, the universe, and everything.
And now here we are creating mice with human brains. Sounds like a downgrade to me!
-David
"such a worker would toil in a sweatshop with singlemindedness, as oxen would plow a field."
If that's the case, I'll bet EA is underwriting the research.
What's a Dongeon?
Is that a Donkey and Dragon Chimera?
How many hitpoints does it have?
Oh hell... I'm adding one to my modded Temple of Elemental Evil campaign tonight.
No, if this experiment proceeds in producing human cognitive thought in a mouse, we'll start having better lawyers and politicians. That's what you should be worried about.
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> However, the article does mention that the goals of one of the studies is to create mice with 100% human brains.
And the other mouse will be called "Pinky".
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
-- The Brain
Oh, nevermind.
It would be pretty cool to recreate the mythical creatures of ancient Greece... the chimera, the minotaur, the centaur, the satyr, the harpy, the medusa, the pegasus...
Heck, with a little more effort, we could recreate the whole Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual!
MMORPG? Pfeh. I vote for Real Life Monster-Fighting Adventures!
It was a typo, I meant Dungeon. Yoo see, I have specially mapped my keyboard so that the 'O' is next to the 'U', and as yoo'd expect, every so often I miss the 'U' and accidentely hit 'O' qoite often. I hope yoo onderstand, it is a simple typographical error, nothing more.
> what would have they come up with if they hadn't?
Stuart Little?
Catnip.
My other first post is car post.
This is a purely political issue.
Swarms of mice being churned out of the labs with tiny human brains will obviously be voting Republican in the next US election. If the GOP is not now sponsoring this type of research, it soon will be.
I don't get that. Why has it been modded funny?
Professor Karmadillo Songs of Science
I say to Moreau,
You say Tomorrow!
Let's call th ewhole thing off...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
...to the age-old question:
"Are we mice, or are we men?"
One of the many over-used sci-fi plots has been "man makes creature, creature tries to destroy man." ... it'll be nice to actually see it happen.
Reinvent the wheel only at either a lower cost, greater effectiveness, or your own personal enrichment and satisfaction.
Spoken like a true city folk. Ever been on a farm? Ever heard of the phrase "cow tipping?" Ever actually *seen* a cow? Of all the farm animals you could have chosen, you picked the slowest, dumbest, most sedentary creature of them all. And I'm including hen's eggs. Mice *sperm* are farther up the sentience scale than cows, my friend.
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
No they wouldn't! They'd get jobs living on a giant computer designed to find out the Question of life the universe and everything.
Maybe by next week they'd figure out what colour the "Wheel" should be.
Now I'll be getting penis enlargement spam telling me how I could get genetically modified to be a human with a horse's penis. :/
I for one welcome our new Chinese half human scorpion pillaging parachutist overlords, if only for their entertainment value.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
No kidding. The non-human animals have yet to break 850 on the SAT, so they're stuck in low-paying blue collar jobs. The dolphins have made abacuses out of shells and driftwood, but I'll be impressed when they implement function keys.
Anyway, I gotta go now. I have a chimp friend who's getting married at a church downtown. His mom was going to make him one of those fancy, three-level wedding cakes like humans have. However, she wasn't quite smart enough to do it, so it ended up as a big heap of cake. Then she flung handfuls of icing at it. I think she's upset because of the recent stock market decline. Chiquita and Dole took a hit.
Nothing really new here, but it explains some phenomena - now I'll now that some politicians are clearly a result of a human-mice brain experiment which went bad...
luddit anti-tech position if the knowledge even remotely touches on biology.
If we can't reproduce, nobody else should be able to either.
paintball
*ducks*
Nevermind
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If you the thought occurred to you that these words might apply to you,
Your reasoning definitely applies to me.
then they probably don't.
I guess it doesn't.
If you're sure that they don't apply to you,
I guess it does.
then perhaps they do apply
I give up, your logic is too circular for me to decide whether you think your advice is relevent to me. I'm sticking with my original thought that I am not qualified to debate this article.
What Chimeras? And what is wrong with Chimeras? You got somthing against Chimeras? They aint good enough for you? They can't get on your fancy little boat.
More proof: Noah was a Nazi.
Forget all this chimera stuff. I want a liger. They are only the coolest animal ever. GOSH!
...I offer you the following corrections:
...extremely causious with such experiments
...both of nature and eachother
I don't think any concious person...
Conscious.
Cautious.
Each other.
Your willingness to learn is impressive, as is your current grasp of English. Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
CD
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Scientists attempted to make a pig-elephant chimera, only to find that pig and elephant DNA just won't splice.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
i think someone's been watching too much Full Metal Alchemist...
Does this mean the next stuart little or scooby doo movie is going to be live action?
Yes.......Pinky............... I wonder if the mice would try to dominate the world?
Later this year he may conduct another experiment where the mice have 100 percent human brains. This would be done, he said, by injecting human neurons into the brains of embryonic mice
Who can say Pinky and the Brain?!?!
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It depends. How much cheese is in it for me if I press the lever that indicates that I feel cheated?
For sale...mace (+1 against chimeras). Barely used. Cheap!