Scientists have made a breakthrough in research increasing brain activity and memory. They have created Hobbie-J, the world’s smartest rat. Hobbie-j is the result of a sinister organization known NIMH. Ok, it is less sinister when spelled out: U.S. National Institute of Mental Health.
Hobbie-J can remember things 300 percent more than an ordinary rat due to modifying a single gene.
This could either promise huge increases in human intelligence or a race of super rat overlords who will use us as slave cheese makers and cat killers. I want to go on record that the Turley blog will continue its policy of surrendering to any new animal overlords that demand slavish allegiance, here, here, here and here. I just wish someone would tell us whom to surrender to.
Hobbie-J can perform amazing analytical tasks due to the overexpression of the gene NR2B. One only has to compare this performance to the recent Larry King/Carrie Prejean interview to see the inevitable domination of rodent overlords.
For a glimpse into our future, here is a video from the Nimh labs:
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Byron,
Did the fact that the embed says “The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue” tip you off?
Byron,
You are a dogmatic dogmatized dogmatist and I leave you with this question:
Which animal will eat it’s own excrement?
Good day.
Tim in SF:
I thought so, thanks for validating my hunch.
nal:
you put a piece of string in front of a dog and he will yawn.
Dogma is the superiority of the dog relative to the cat. The ma at the end of Dogma was actually truncated many years ago when dogs and man started being best buddies.
Ma is short for magnificent as is in dogs are magnificent and superior to cats as friends to man. So dogma is actually short for dogs are magnificent.
Dogs rule and cats play with fuzzy things.
Elaine, Our Great Big Green Friend, Buddha Is Laughing, noted that above at 9:57 am. Thanks to all for the tip. I will search it out.
Many constituents will united to oppose this. The Catholic church because they’ll only get more lawsuits. The entertainment industry. Political parties, gone. I call this the utopia drug and I want it right now!
nal, just a friendly warning. The god Xenu also posts to this site. I believe your words may cause you to be smote.
This video is not from the Secret of NIMH. This is a clip some CRAPPY direct-to-DVD sequel which is NOT based on the book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
Vince–
There was also a children’s novel published nearly forty years ago about highly intelligent rats who escaped from a NIMH laboratory. The book, “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH,” won the Newbery Medal for children’s literature in 1972. I believe it was made into a movie in the early 1980s.
Byron,
That’s no LOLcat. That cat is studying the delusion of Dog belief. That’s why they call it dogma.
Science Fiction Written Prediction™®©:
“Flowers for Algernon,” short story by Daniel Keyes, F&SF, April 1959, Hugo 1960. Novel, 1966, co-Nebula, 1966. Filmed as “Charly” with Cliff Robertson, and staged as a musical play “Charlie and Algernon” in London, Washington D.C, and New York.
Per wiki, “Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means. The story is told as a series of progress reports written by Charlie, the first human test subject for the surgery, and touches upon many different ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled.”
Recently re-voted “our number one most popular story” in the 60-year history of F&SF. The latest reprint is in The Very Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, ed. by Gordon Van Gelder. Again per wiki, it is a frequent target of censorship around the country and the world.
I thought Dick Cheney was the first of the sinister super rat overlords whose alter ego dwelt on the “dark side” of Rodentia.
cats will never rule, they get distracted by pieces of string pulled in front of them.
Just wait until I get my NR2B gene enhanced! I will rule the world! You all will submit to your nal overlord. And you will like it.
In the meantime, you may go about your normal activities.
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On a related note, you may be interested in a Matrix-like uploading technique to enhance our brain performance. Read it heer:
http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/11/13/why-youre-probably-intuitively-wrong/
Movie, schomovie.
“The Secret of NIMH” was based upon a Newbery Award winning book titled “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM” by Robert C. O’Brien. It’s one of a limited number of kids books in my first editions collection and a good read.
Ultimately, we may see a contest between the Nimh rat against our own Nal for ability to spot typos in the fastest time. I am betting on Nal who is likely also to kick his rodent rear end in the cheese/maze competition.
Secret of NIMH was a good movie, came out around 1982. If I remember correctly the hero rat made a statement about not wanting to live off of the humans and that the good rats had to leave and make it on their own.
What a great message.
This is pretty interesting. NR2B, a neuroreceptor which is part of the larger NMDA pathway, is also believed to be a factor in alcoholism, and its production is increased from persistent alcohol consumption. The question now becomes: is beer the ultimate intelligence booster?
So you mean W has a chance? Come on surly you jest. That home lobotomy kit that W used cannot not be reversed or can it? The question is did it come with instructions or not? Nah, it really does not matter. He could not read to start with. Remember he started no child left behind . . . .