Mouse-Human hybrids?

[Ishmael]

What hath babbage wrought?

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It's not so much what the article says, but what it doesn't say that concerns me. For example, is this inheritable? What happens when this is tried, and it will be, on tool making mammals?

It is the nature of science to push the boundaries to the limits, whether those limits are in the long term interests of humans or not.

While there is a group that is all up in the air over AGW, a long term threat if truly a threat at all, I would suggest that genetic engineering and/or intelligent automation (Artificial Intelligence if you will, although I contend there is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence, intelligence just is) are the threats that will ultimately do the human race in.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

lol


Planet of the A..., er, uh, KITTAH's!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Wait until the activists start pushing genetic engineering in order to promote animal rights and a strict Vegan diet...



BUT THOSE PIGS ARE NOW SMARTER THAN DOLPHINS!!!



Don't you dare feed me 'smart' corn!

 

[Ishmael]

I thought you were a Kittahgrrl....

Kittah's need to eat too.

Ishmael

 

[Bidin~Time]

As if I don't have trouble enough keeping the plain ole field mice outta my feed barrels...

Thanks, Obama!!

 

[Ishmael]

As if I don't have trouble enough keeping the plain ole field mice outta my feed barrels...

Thanks, Obama!!

Oh, they'll be doing it with Kittah's soon enough. Think of it as a biological arms race.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And then the dawgs...

Slippers? Slippers?

Bring me a Crown Royal neat!

 

[Libsam]

Will the human/mice hybrids be able to reproduce more efficiently?

 

[phrodeau]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixrQcGQ6o-w

 

[Mike_Yates]

http://thumbnails112.imagebam.com/36914/9072b4369133606.jpg

 

[Bidin~Time]

Oh, they'll be doing it with Kittah's soon enough. Think of it as a biological arms race.

Ishmael

Terrific. The smart mices will be running willy nilly all over and the 'special' smart mice mousers will cost an arm and a leg because some scientist will get the patent on the breed of 'special' smart mice mouser kittehs.

 

[Ishmael]

Terrific. The smart mices will be running willy nilly all over and the 'special' smart mice mousers will cost an arm and a leg because some scientist will get the patent on the breed of 'special' smart mice mouser kittehs.

Yup, it's a plan. Everyone will get the 'smart' mice but only the rich will be able to afford the 'smart' kittehs. Start saving.

Ishmael

 

[Bidin~Time]

Yup, it's a plan. Everyone will get the 'smart' mice but only the rich will be able to afford the 'smart' kittehs. Start saving.

Ishmael

I can't afford to pay attention as it is. I might as well just turn the spare room into a giant smart mouse house.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Will the zombies evolve to subsist off of their brains?



It may be a saving grace.

 

[Bidin~Time]

Will the zombies evolve to subsist off of their brains?



It may be a saving grace.

That would be too easy, sir.

zombies and smart mice. They will form an unholy alliance.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

I saw this article a couple of days ago. Even the people running the tests admit that even with added human brain tissue they're still mice.

It's funny to see the doom and gloom "the world will be overrun by human/(insert animal here) smart hybrids."

So far as can be determined, the DNA of the animals is not being changed in any way, so the odds of the effect of this experimentation being passed on is somewhere between none and impossible.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That would be too easy, sir.

zombies and smart mice. They will form an unholy alliance.

Not a chance.



Big hybrid corn will do them in.

 

[Bidin~Time]

I saw this article a couple of days ago. Even the people running the tests admit that even with added human brain tissue they're still mice.

It's funny to see the doom and gloom "the world will be overrun by human/(insert animal here) smart hybrids."

So far as can be determined, the DNA of the animals is not being changed in any way, so the odds of the effect of this experimentation being passed on is somewhere between none and impossible.

Hey!! you don't know, it COULD happen!! <faux really mad until you get to postin the fun what if'n stuff face>

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Hey!! you don't know, it COULD happen!! <faux really mad until you get to postin the fun what if'n stuff face>

His animus towards his political 'enemies' consistently overrides his common sense...

 

[Bidin~Time]

Not a chance.



Big hybrid corn will do them in.

we better get to infusing the hybrid corn with reproductive sterilization chemicals, or there will be overweight smart mices directing hungry zombies to all the human safe houses.

Damn fat smart mices

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

we better get to infusing the hybrid corn with reproductive sterilization chemicals, or there will be overweight smart mices directing hungry zombies to all the human safe houses.

Damn fat smart mices

First step:

Day vision dna for owls...

 

[Bidin~Time]

I can see it now.

A Fat Smart Mouse King, sitting on his rotund, fat smart mouse butt on his Fat Smart Mouse Royal Throne pointing his Fat Smart Mouse scepter at this group of zombies and that group of zombies. "Fetch me a barrel of non Hybrid corn, My brain hungry minions! your King demands working semen to bring forth Royal Smart Mice Micelings! from all the Royal Concubines!" he will demand, and they will go scuffling off in search to do his bidding.

 

[KingOrfeo]

This ain't exactly news . . .

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Hey!! you don't know, it COULD happen!! <faux really mad until you get to postin the fun what if'n stuff face>

Not really, it surprising that the human cells aren't outright rejected. But the possibility of them being passed along to offspring is almost as likely as being bitten by a radioactive spider and gaining the proportional strength, speed, and reactions of a spider.

You want funny mouse related stuff, read "Flowers for Algernon". Ok, so not so funny, but it is intelligent mouse related.

I see AJ is still in full victim mode this morning, as usual.

 

[Bidin~Time]

The Fat Smart Mouse King will call for his Royal Zombie Smart Kitteh Hunting storm troopers. "You there! Go and hunt down all the Smart kittehs that we may bring them to Smart Mouse Justice! You may eat their brains, but only after the Royal Smart Mice Scientists have de-smarted them lest you gain smarts and the Royal balance be knocked askew. Go my zombie minions, and all the plebes in the Smart Mouse Kingdom will raise monuments to you and sing songs of celebration!"

He is safe in voicing his reasons aloud as the zombies are...well, they are zombies and not terribly good at thinking on their own.