Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center have apparently been tinkering with selectively erasing the memories of rats with a mysterious drug they call ZIP. In the trial, mice who had learned to avoid an electrified area of their cage, once injected with ZIP, appeared to have forgotten about the electrification, and ceased to avoid the area. They have also successfully made the rats forgot about their distaste for a substance that had previously made them sick. Dr. Todd Sacktor, head of the project, believes that the drug may be used in humans one day, and that it may also help enhance memories as well. We don't really have any specific info about the drug itself, or how it works, so until then... we'll just have to keep hoping that the lyrics to
Use Your Illusion II fade on their own.
posted Apr 8th 2009 6:47PM
Fuck. I knew eventually someone was going to get a little too serious about Harry Potter.
Spoken like a true Harry Potter fan. They might have even put it in to production already, I've all but forgotten about the sixth Harry Potter movie coming out because they delayed it another six months (it was going to be released in November 08), does that count?
At least there's going to be two movies for book seven... sigh...
EXPELLIARMUS!!!!
New World Order! New World Order!!
OBLIVIATE!
SILENCIO!
More like:
1) 2 Irish Car Bombs followed by a long island iced tea
2) go home and smoke your bong
3)????
4) Profit!
What took them so long? I've been doing it successfully for years!
Funny.. so have I. Its called alcohol.
Me too! I used a brain-squeegee.
Mine is called weed. There are some side effects, though, like random trips for cheeseburgers at 2AM.
Mines called bong. And both those characters knows about it.
"Mine is called weed. There are some side effects, though, like random trips for cheeseburgers at 2AM."
or ordering Pizza and then forgetting you ordered it when they show up at your door.
no man, you order the pizza before you start. Then, right when you're like, "dude, we should order a pizza", it's right fucking there! blows your mind.
@john.
after i read your comment, i tried.
it works bro. thanks.
@ john
that was awesome. thank you so much.
+1
Yeah, right?
1) 2 Irish Car Bombs followed by a long island iced tea
2) go home and smoke your bong
3)????
4) No more memories!
Seriously, this happened to me last night.
All they need to do is turn this into a device that fires a bright light into the eye of the user when viewed..
Now if you may all direct your attention this way.....
Anybody thinking "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"?
Great movie by the way.
Well, it technically IS brain damage.
thats exactly what i was thinking . . .
The movie was actually based on the early results of this type of research at NYU a few years ago. See here: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/08
.... Which actually makes me wonder how this is new news. Maybe it's like how, every year since 2006, somebody proclaims that "laptop sales have finally surpassed desktop sales"?
Still cool, though.
Exactly what came to mind.
Shitty movie in my opinion.
FACK Obama and his lean team! Yes...
These... These 2 have all the answers...
If they are testing on rats, how do they know if it doesnt just erase ALL their memories. When you start seeing 40 year olds acting like babies and crying... You know the plague has begun... :D
you just blew my mind.
What? I alread thought 40 year old males do that? When they dont get any suckie-suckie?
And no I am not bitter.
how do you know they're not just getting highly stoned, and just being like...
DUDE, WE SHOULD WALK INTO THAT ELECTRICAL FIELD
Getting even closer to a Back to the Future II world.
"Hilldale. Nothing but a breeding ground for Tranks, Lobos and Zipheads."
MCFWAIIIII!!
Men In Black (MIB)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoezvmZZ440
Coming to a vaccination near you...
Wait, Brooklyn has rats???
So it either enhances memory or erases it? I'm not sure I like those odds.
Maybe erasing some memories is an enhancement.
1984?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind anyone?!
Yes, the 3rd post
Don't you read before you comment...
he read it and then forgot
WE HAD THIS IN THE SIXTIES, I AM TOLD.......
DID IT MAKE YOU TALK IN ALL CAPS TOO?
No, but it made you program in all caps, COBOL ftw.
*sigh*
Alright everybody, gather around!
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2974/t10neuralizer.jpg
I think putting that link there makes an infinite loop... you see the image, forget the image, see the link, click the link, see the image, forget the image, see the link, click the link...
What image?
atenolol does the same thing. look it up. interesting stuff.
How do you know if it does the same stuff? How would you remember? Hmmmm! ANSWER THAT!