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The Borg are coming!

psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
edited March 2013 in Ten Forward
http://news.yahoo.com/rats-linked-brains-together-191158308.html

This is cool, but kind of scary.
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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Wow...that's just...wrong. :eek:

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  • jkstocbrjkstocbr Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    The article even used "assimilate".

    The line must be drawn here! ... quick get a shoe!
  • sarisiasevensarisiaseven Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I can hear it now..

    "We are the Rats we will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your lives as they have been are over. From this time forward you will service us. Give us your cheese.'
  • idronaidrona Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    The TV has been warning us about this for years..


    Seriously though while bit creepy, interesting research.
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  • kempethkempeth Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    jkstocbr wrote: »
    The article even used "assimilate".

    The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they've done.
    Fixed that for you...
    Great! Only three left. Now all I need is for one of them to leave the room and then there will be only one left...
    Wait, where I come from three minus one still leaves two!
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    All this time we have been watching the Chimpanzees, but no one was watching the Rats!!!:eek:


    Quick link up some cats....but then we will need to link up some Dogs to take care of them....but then what would take care of the dogs???? Monkeys DAMNIT!

    Planet of the apes is inevitable, we just need to accept it.
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  • twg042370twg042370 Member Posts: 2,312 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    All this time we have been watching the Chimpanzees, but no one was watching the Rats!!!:eek:

    They've actually been running the experiments on us.
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  • captainrevo1captainrevo1 Member Posts: 3,948 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I for one welcome our new rodent overlords.
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    There are some things you just should'n mess around with...

    Seriously... Thoose guys have no clue what they are dealing with...

    To use a quote from a great film, here similar natural issues were messed with:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7NEdbJ3ugE
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    captainrevo1 wrote: »
    I for one welcome our new rodent overlords.

    I think they would be the good kind.... No one ever died mining cheese.


    Maybe if we tell them it's on the moon we will finally get that space program.:eek:
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  • scififan78scififan78 Member Posts: 1,383 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    All this time we have been watching the Chimpanzees, but no one was watching the Rats!!!:eek:


    Quick link up some cats....but then we will need to link up some Dogs to take care of them....but then what would take care of the dogs???? Monkeys DAMNIT!

    Planet of the apes is inevitable, we just need to accept it.

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  • coupaholiccoupaholic Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    In all seriousness it is a good idea, such knowledge would be valuable for prosthetics and even perhaps HCI.

    BUT...if Skynet get's wind of this...then it's time to panic.
  • idronaidrona Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    scififan78 wrote: »
    Resistance is Furr-tile.

    That's the most awesome drawing I've seen in awhile. :D
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  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Ok thats plain evil

    these "scientists" need locking up ideally in a maximum security prison
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    reyan01 wrote: »
    So far as I am concerned, the old adage that suggests that 'becase we CAN do a thing does not necessarily mean that we MUST do that thing' springs to mind.

    Well that's MY opinion too.

    Theres also the fact that our knowlege about the brain is very VERY limited at this point... We know of it's capacity, and the average usage of most living beings of their brains is below 30%.

    That means that we have between 70 and 90'ish percent of the brain, that we have no clue why it exists, and even less clue of what to use it for.

    Of cause there is the concept, (witch admittedly seem like the Borg), that your thoughts and personality is stored within the brain, and as such the individuality is lost with these experiments.

    What they are doing seems ethically and humanly irresponsible.
    Don't look silly... Don't call it the "Z-Store/Zen Store"...
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Let me put the rumors to rest: it's definitely still the C-Store (Cryptic Store) It just takes ZEN.
    Like Duty Officers? Support effords to gather ideas
  • garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure... :cool:
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  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    What's scary about this isn't the fact their minds are linked, but they adapted. The Encoder saw the Decoder was having trouble and changed his pattern so Decoder could work more efficiently.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    anazonda wrote: »
    Well that's MY opinion too.

    Theres also the fact that our knowlege about the brain is very VERY limited at this point... We know of it's capacity, and the average usage of most living beings of their brains is below 30%.

    That means that we have between 70 and 90'ish percent of the brain, that we have no clue why it exists, and even less clue of what to use it for.

    Of cause there is the concept, (witch admittedly seem like the Borg), that your thoughts and personality is stored within the brain, and as such the individuality is lost with these experiments.

    What they are doing seems ethically and humanly irresponsible.
    The way I understand it, we use around 30% at any given time(+/-10%). BUT, which 30% is in use depends on what we're doing.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    reyan01 wrote: »
    So far as I am concerned, the old adage that suggests that 'becase we CAN do a thing does not necessarily mean that we MUST do that thing' springs to mind.

    Scientists don't watch Science Fiction movies much it seems. :P
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