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Human Animal Hybrid Created in Lab

Posted by samzenpus on from the who-wants-a-tail dept.

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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  1. Human / Animal Hybrids? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh great. Here come the furries.

  2. That would be playing god. by Flakeloaf · · Score: 4, Funny

    God shmod, I want my monkeyman!

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    1. Re:That would be playing god. by Hi_2k · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm just waiting for someone to really make those Catgirls you see in anime. Me-YOW!

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    2. Re:That would be playing god. by servognome · · Score: 4, Funny

      sorry, those chicks prefer tentacle creatures over us mere humans.

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  3. Mouse..... by mcknation · · Score: 4, Funny

    And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.

    Yes and the answer is 42.

    /-McK

  4. gosh, mice w/ human brains?!? by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sweet. I can sit back and let that sucker go STRAIGHT to the pr0n. clickety, clickety

    1. Re:gosh, mice w/ human brains?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other research news, scientists have succeeded in creating humans w/ mice genitals. The automobile industry is thrilled, expecting booming SUV sales.

  5. I can finaly put my mind at ease...... by Supurcell · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Coming right up... by interactive_civilian · · Score: 5, Funny
    You can have your Monkeyman, but you have to go over to the largish, very light colored house on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington DC to pick him up.

    /thank you thank you, don't forget to tip your waitress. ;)

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  7. useless by interactive_civilian · · Score: 5, Funny
    I agree. It is all so useless. Mice with human brains? They do nothing but futily try to take over the world every night...

    *sigh* when will those scientists ever learn? ;)

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  8. Re:Err... not a religious issue. by MooseByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

  9. Re:How is this legal? by hayden · · Score: 5, Funny
    If this experiment succeeds in producing human cognitive thought in a mouse, we most certainly have an issue.
    Damn straight. Think of all the web developers/middle managers that will lose their jobs.
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  10. Re: How is this legal? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    > 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".

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  11. Re:How is this legal? by Megaslow · · Score: 4, Funny
    If it works for half of Slashd....

    Oh, nevermind.

  12. Re:False Advertising by strider44 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  13. You Say by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    I say to Moreau,
    You say Tomorrow!
    Let's call th ewhole thing off...

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  14. Re:How is this legal? by syukton · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  15. Re:Moral consistency by Txiasaeia · · Score: 4, Funny
    " I would rate the adult cow higher on the sentience scale than a mouse with an uneducated human brain."

    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.

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  16. are you sure about that? by ALpaca2500 · · Score: 4, Funny

    i think someone's been watching too much Full Metal Alchemist...