Does anybody else find this to be creepy?

[Goofball]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7681252/

Yikes...

[Byzantine Prince]

Let's just hope this technology doesn't reach New Zealand because then we'll really be in trouble.

[Templar Knight]

or Aberdeen

[GoreBag]

Oh, whatever. We eat strawberries with fish genes in them every day.

[BDC]

Other than the possibility of them becoming really brainy (but I doubt anyone knows enough about how the brain works to predict that) I don't see the issue.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

the committee recommended closely monitoring the mice’s behavior and immediately killing any that display human-like behavior.

Er, why? "Humanity! Quickly, destroy it!"

Human mice would be really cool. You could put them through the letterbox if you got locked out and have them open the door.

[Byzantine Prince]

Ever watched Pinky and the Brain?

*shivers*

[Mikeus Caesar]

If they transfer it to all sheep, then it will be the final proof that they aren't too dumb. And, they might finally have the intelligence to run away from Welsh farmers.

[tibilicus]

Wow human half sheep !!!!!!!!! Mikeus now has his brother back !!!!!!!!! lol only messing mate !!!!!!!!! I personley am half human half sheep as i am a guest. Bet your gelious ure not a guest guys? Ye bet you are.

[Redleg]

I am actually hoping Nav will post on this one - because I got a feeling that I would agree with him on this one.

[Steppe Merc]

Er, why? "Humanity! Quickly, destroy it!"

Just wondering about the same thing. Are they afraid they'll take over or something?

I don't know how much I like this... I find it disturbing, frankly.

[Xiahou]

In January, an informal ethics committee at Stanford University endorsed a proposal to create mice with brains nearly completely made of human brain cells.

Totally horriffic.

Just in case, Greely said, the committee recommended closely monitoring the mice’s behavior and immediately killing any that display human-like behavior.

Like this somehow makes it better? It's already done- killing it doesnt undo it. Again, horriffic.

Island of Doctor Moreau anyone?

[kiwitt]

... reach New Zealand because ...

That does explain the sheepy looking characters we have lurking around here

[PanzerJaeger]

Ethics and Science should go hand in hand. There is obviously a serious shortage of the former in Nevada.

It is wrong to tamper with humanity like this.

Why dont these scientists create a hydrogen engine or something instead of playing God?

[DemonArchangel]

Playing God=Fun
If your theory of creation holds true, God also created the stars, so Fusion Power is ethically wrong as well.

[Idomeneas]

Ethics and Science should go hand in hand. There is obviously a serious shortage of the former in Nevada.

It is wrong to tamper with humanity like this.

Why dont these scientists create a hydrogen engine or something instead of playing God?

Cause this kind of engine exists for more than a decade but oil companies and their puppets keep it buried. A greek inventor back in early 80's found way to move his car with water and reaching the speed of 90 km/h. Guess what. They offered him a load of money to buy his invention and bury it.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

If your theory of creation holds true, God also created the stars, so Fusion Power is ethically wrong as well.

I guess this makes you feel cool.

Island of Doctor Moreau anyone?

Freaky book alert! Sounds a lot like it, doesn't it?

[Kaiser of Arabia]

This is evil, as evil as the cloned embryo.
I find it sickening that us, as human beings, allow this to go on.

[PanzerJaeger]

If your theory of creation holds true, God also created the stars, so Fusion Power is ethically wrong as well.

I dont need Jesus to tell me intermixing human and animal parts is wrong.

I must agree with Alex though, i feel you simply said that to make yourself seem counter-culture. Dont worry, you'll grow out of it eventually or end up living in a cardboard castle.

[DemonArchangel]

Nah, i didn't say it to seem counterculture, i said that cuz it's the truth. Meh, anywho.... the animals are just... weird.

[Goofball]

Cause this kind of engine exists for more than a decade but oil companies and their puppets keep it buried. A greek inventor back in early 80's found way to move his car with water and reaching the speed of 90 km/h. Guess what. They offered him a load of money to buy his invention and bury it.

Take off your tinfoil hat and return to the mothership before the CIA activates the microchip they implanted in your cortex that makes you do the chicken-dance while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and farting the theme from Star Wars...

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

That is siggiefied! Thank you, Goofball, you goofball you.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Panzer and other anti-human animal mixing members besides a gut reaction is there anything behind why you find this to be sickening?

Personally I have no problem with this and find it interesting that we would kill them if they exhibited human-like characteristics. Maybe it is just that it would pop the whole humanity created to rule over the other animals bubble, but I don't really understand the reasoning against it.

[LittleGrizzly]

I can't see why this is wrong, also i dont see why signs of humanity should involve it being killed, perhpas we could learn from it...

[PanzerJaeger]

We keep sliding down this slippery slope all in the name of "Curing Diseases". Exactly how many Diseases have been cured by mice with human brains?

There is a point, even in the religion now know as science, when we have to slow down and look retrospectively at what we are doing.

Human life - the essence of what we are as beings beyond the other animals of the earth - is not raw material to be used and thrown away, or played with in the lab.

We dont know what a human brain will do in a mouse. Does it think?

If we have to resort to expending innocent unborn life to prolong the life of someone who has already experienced this, what does that say about us?

Greedy, self-righteous, and pathetic are words that come to my mind.

The devaluation of life leads to a culture of death that can seriously alter the basic precepts of humanity. Is it worth it?

[Husar]

Now we can finally save the environment, the new human MK2 with the speed of a cheetah doesn´t need cars anymore, he is hybrid like a snail (no more gays), he can fly like a bird of prey, dive like a fish and he needs no fossil fuels to function, he is of course vegetarian to prevent any wars.

[Idomeneas]

Take off your tinfoil hat and return to the mothership before the CIA activates the microchip they implanted in your cortex that makes you do the chicken-dance while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and farting the theme from Star Wars...

thanks for the warning i dont want what happened to you to happen to me also.
Just a question. You boost your singing farts with special kind of beans or are you a natural?

[Mikeus Caesar]

Human life - the essence of what we are as beings beyond the other animals of the earth - is not raw material to be used and thrown away, or played with in the lab.

If it doesn't think, and it isn't sentient, then it isn't really human life, is it? Killing a human embryo that doesn't think or know that it exists for research is like killing a chicken for food. It's essential.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Mikeus Caesar has a point, if we are willing to kill animals who have higher cognitive ability than an embryo does what is the problem with using the embryo? It is being used in a much more productive and helpful manner than almost any slain animal.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Wow, i actually made a valid point? w00t!