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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.
Fool! You fell for a Jedi mind trick!
God shmod, I want my monkeyman!
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.
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Yes and the answer is 42.
Sweet. I can sit back and let that sucker go STRAIGHT to the pr0n. clickety, clickety
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
"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.
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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 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.
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.
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...