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ElvisDumbledore t1_j6xglov wrote

Thank god. I've been unable to navigate mazes my whole life. Perhaps in the future they will be able to transplant that part of a rat's brain into mine.

Fall Festival Corn Maize here I come!!!

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Cyclical_Zeitgeist t1_j6xh0t4 wrote

Now I can finally live out my fantasy as a super hero...

introducing: Rat Man! Master of Mazes, the Sultan of Sewers

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Mouthtuom t1_j6xjz3n wrote

Oh look George is awake

Who is George?

My pet Organoid. He’s a symbiont that lives in my pet rat Ralph. He can recite the Gettysburg address when I attach the cranial interface.

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The_Humble_Frank t1_j6xouti wrote

Do you want hyper-intelligent frankensteined man-rats? Because this is how you get hyper-intelligent frankensteined man-rats?

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Vinstofle t1_j6xskef wrote

Imagine pranking the hell out of a chimp and giving it the area of the brain related to speech.

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BlueMonkOne t1_j6xuh4t wrote

"Unfortunately, one of the rats named Nicodemus managed to escape the facility."

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thulesgold t1_j6xz9eh wrote

So the people doing this research have no ethical concerns? This is Dr. Moreau level "science."

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wiegie t1_j6y7wfx wrote

Oooh! I loved Mrs Frisby and the Rats from NIMH! Is this a sequel?

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savvysearch t1_j6ytf0f wrote

Whats the implications for this? Restoration of eyesight for blindness caused by visual cortex brain damage?

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mrhorse77 t1_j6zeykj wrote

is this how Splinter gets made in the lab?

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Kaje26 t1_j6zjmk5 wrote

I just imagine some weird short film someone would probably come up with while high where a rat evolves the ability to speak and talks with other rats about memories it has from a human.

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boissondevin t1_j6zlgyc wrote

Take-steal the man-thing mind-thoughts yes yes

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Mr_Moogles t1_j70hofl wrote

How bout we don't create a race of super rats with human brains, hmm?

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[deleted] t1_j70i0ro wrote

Is this the origin story for Pinky and the Brain?

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Snirion t1_j7172d8 wrote

Does that mean we can become organic borg and assimilate other species?

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[deleted] t1_j76hnzn wrote

I read an article where a pig embryo had almost all of its organs replaced with human's when scientists trief to harvest human organs. Imagine a literal human in a pig body

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