Ratworld… like Waterworld but less shit.
Posted by: aarondoyle / Category: Aaron Doyle's Boredom BlogAt the risk of degrading this website into some sort of link dump to interesting news stories, have I got a news story for you!
It seems UK scientists have hooked up 300,000 cells from the brains of feotal rats, to a robot.
“Ha!”, you scoff. “What the hell will that achieve? Rat brains can’t interface with robots.”
“Really?” I sneer. Well it seems the cells are not only able to control the robot… they’re learning. They’ve learned how to control the speed of the robot, the direction, and use it’s sonar system to avoid collisions.
Not only that but they have a few of these little frankenrats, and they’re each developing their own personalities…
Seriously. Now think for a second about this. Effectively they have made cyborgs.
Now I’m no expert, but I’ve watched TV and mankind has two natural enemies: Intelligent robots, and zombies.
In fact I’ll go as far as to say that it won’t be long before we’re all running for our lives, desperately fighting off rat controlled super-machines armed with lasers and nuclear war heads. Fighting a guerilla style battle in the streets of our once grand cities. Hiding out in the sewers in a highly ironic turn of fate. All mankind’s achievements will be crushed under the mighty paw of rat kind.
We can only hope and pray the scientists developing cat-controlled zombies make a break through in time.
In any case, I think I’m going to start digging my shelter… just in case.
BBC story with video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7559150.stm
August 19th, 2008 at 19:32
WHY DO SCIENTISTS DO THIS STUFF.
Seriously, early on in this experiment, didn’t at least one of them turn to the scientist next to them and say ‘Hey Frank, isn’t this remarkably like the beginning of EVERY MOVIE EVER? Maybe we should just go back to injecting reanimation serums into cursed mummies.’
August 19th, 2008 at 22:51
You know what scientists are like though. If they’re not mad, they’re evil.