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Creepy Real World
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:26 pm
by NeverMore
Scientists have learned how to control cockroaches wirelessly. Maybe now they can keep them from going in my mouth at night when I'm sleeping? 
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:55 pm
by NeverMore
OK! So much for outrunning the robots during the robot apocalypse. The guy can run up to 28 MPH. What are these scientists thinking?!?
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:25 am
by NeverMore
How would you like to be walking along and see this thing come crashing out of the woods? Probably hear it first.
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:27 am
by Murfreesboro
Nevermore, you find the weirdest stuff!
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:54 pm
by witchy
Murfreesboro wrote:Nevermore, you find the weirdest stuff!
Ditto!! 
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:14 pm
by Pumpkin_Man
Hey, don't knock it. The real world can be very creepy in deed.
Mike
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:52 pm
by NeverMore
Just cuz scientists can do something, should they? I just read again today that they have figured out how to implant memories in brains. I still think the story is a promo for the new Total Recall movie.
http://gizmodo.com/5942291/scientists-i ... -in-brains
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:00 pm
by Pumpkin_Man
Actualy I don't buy it. I think the human brain is far too complex for anyone to be able to "inplant" memories or anything else. If it was, schools would be obsolete. You could simply implant everything from K through graduates degree at infancy. No need for teachers, tuition, class rooms, or anything else.
Sounds too good to be true? It is.
Mike
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:47 am
by Murfreesboro
That's a good point, Mike. I would add that there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom. If you could implant anything, it would be knowledge. Wisdom, however, is learned only through experience, I think.
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 11:37 am
by NeverMore
I agree with that Murf, Some people are book-smart, some are street-smart, and then there are the lucky folks who are both. Mike, I do believe that someday mankind will discover the secrets of the brain. It may take thousands of years? Actually, I'm a little surprised we are unraveling it as fast as we are.
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:52 am
by Pumpkin_Man
There's no doubt that we are learning more and more about everything, including the brain, but I think we are a very long way from being able to inplant memories or knowledge into anyone. Besides, Murf also makes a point. No matter how much you might know, wisdom still has to be learned. Even if you could inplant all the knowledge of man kind into a human brain, the wisdom as to how the individual will use that knowledge would still have to be learned through experience.
Mike
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:59 pm
by Rising Dead Man
NeverMore wrote:
Just cuz scientists can do something, should they? I just read again today that they have figured out how to implant memories in brains. I still think the story is a promo for the new Total Recall movie.
http://gizmodo.com/5942291/scientists-i ... -in-brains
Bah! Anyone can do that easily! Remember the time we fought zombies in my bathtub dressed as clowns, Nevermore?
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:54 pm
by NeverMore
Rising Dead Man wrote:Bah! Anyone can do that easily! Remember the time we fought zombies in my bathtub dressed as clowns, Nevermore?
Was that before or after we filed down the teeth of all the vampires in Timbuktu? I still have my tutu from that one.
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:38 am
by Rising Dead Man
I think it was before we fed Dracula to Abraham Lincoln. Why did we dress the way we did? I'll regret the pigtails for the rest of my life.
Re: Creepy Real World
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:38 am
by AlexinaWarn
Sounds too good to be true? It is. yes its true