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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: redsniper on August 27, 2010, 02:59:08 pm
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http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1BkmQ6/en.vidivodo.com/188787/first-cyborg-of-the-world
It's a robot controlled by rat neurons. Rats today, terminators tomorrow. :shaking:
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(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/science.jpg)
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:eek2:
threat down time
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Kinda like a Killa Kan minus the buzza saws, rokkit launchas and garish paint job.
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more like a mini-dalek
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:wtf:
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:D
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That rat's brain must be in a special kind of hell. I wonder why the robot was behaving so erratically and not displaying many rat-like behaviors (like recognizing and running away from movement/people, or not running into objects repeatedly).
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From what I've previously heard about this sort of thing, I think it's more akin to a collection of rat neurons grown in a petri dish.
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Experiments on humans > experiments on animals. Also, I'm kinda skeptical about this particular video being legit. For all I know that's just a remote controlled hunk of junk.
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Nah, this is real. I've seen things like this before in documentaries...
Of course the rat was a living rat in that instance with implants - it was more like a remote-controlled animal.
...For the record, I do find the possible applications of this sort of thing disturbing, depending on the usage of course...
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They didn't take the brain out of a rat, they just grabbed a few brain cells out of a rat embryo and grew them in a dish or something. So all the 'brain' has ever known is the input it gets from the robot.
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Those bastards...they've doomed us all. :shaking:
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This is awesome.
@redsniper, are you getting this from a specific source, or are you speculating?
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I read it somewhere. Don't know the veracity.
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that's what the video said.
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The Technocalyps (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0899298/) is coming.........