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Scientific studies suggest mice can feel...
...empathy.
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23764/
(I know it's rather old)
Scientist have found that if they torture little mice any other mice watching can "feel the others' pain"
So to re-cap
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2...rgarineaq8.jpg
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Unambigious
That's my girl alright.
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Animals do have feelings too. But I thought everyone knew that. :blink:
:shuriken:
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According to the article mice may have similar minds to humans, this calls for for laboradory experiments :smilie4:
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I read a while back that the leaves of a rubber plant increase their resistance to electrical current when a live shrimp is dropped into a pan of boiling water which is positioned in the same room as the plant.
This lead the scientists conducting the experiment to believe that plants can also feel empathy.
It lead me to believe that the scientists conducting the experiment are almost as mental as the people who paid them to administer such a pointless procedure.
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manker
I read a while back that the leaves of a rubber plant increase their resistance to electrical current when a live shrimp is dropped into a pan of boiling water which is positioned in the same room as the plant.
This lead the scientists conducting the experiment to believe that plants can also feel empathy.
It lead me to believe that the scientists conducting the experiment are almost as mental as the people who paid them to administer such a pointless procedure.
that's not very vegetarian of you :(
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They tested it on an episode of myhtbusters and concluded it was pish.
edit: the plants feeling empathy thing
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I wonder if scientists, on seeing the pain of another scientist, feel empathy - or whether they just start taking notes. :ermm:
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Proper Bo
They tested it on an episode of myhtbusters and concluded it was pish.
edit: the plants feeling empathy thing
What bo said. They also did it with humans too (shocking one of them).
T'was busted.
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TheRealDave
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Proper Bo
They tested it on an episode of myhtbusters and concluded it was pish.
edit: the plants feeling empathy thing
What bo said. They also did it with humans too (shocking one of them).
T'was busted.
Really? No wonder they split up :no:
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When i was a teen, for the sake of science i used to
1. Put praying mantisis together and let them kill each other.
2.When the fight was over, let the winner fight with a lit firecracker.
3. See if a dog likes to accept bb's
4.The effect of hitting a passerby withan air rifle.
5. Does a a car get damaged if you roll a big rock down a hill towrds it.
6.Does your arm break holding onto a taxi on skates when letting go thru a turn and hitting a palm tree.
7. Do windows break?
etcetc
Are the above scientists teenagers?
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maybe the tree just didnt like shrimp
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SpatulaGeekGirl
looks like that kitten got told :01:
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GepperRankins
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SpatulaGeekGirl
looks like that kitten got told :01:
Got told what and what for? :huh:
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On the kittens? They made them deaf, I don't know why.
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SpatulaGeekGirl
On the kittens? They made them deaf, I don't know why.
Maybe to see if they could understand the subtitles in Eastenders :blink:
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Barbarossa
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SpatulaGeekGirl
On the kittens? They made them deaf, I don't know why.
Maybe to see if they could understand the subtitles in Eastenders :blink:
Possibly, but whatever the motivation was, it was not worth it. It's had a really bad effect on those poor kittens and I hope the people that did that to them cry themselves to sleep at night.
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SpatulaGeekGirl
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Barbarossa
Maybe to see if they could understand the subtitles in Eastenders :blink:
Possibly, but whatever the motivation was, it was not worth it. It's had a really bad effect on those poor kittens and I hope the people that did that to them cry themselves to sleep at night.
Eastenders has that effect on me too :cry:
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Barbarossa
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SpatulaGeekGirl
Possibly, but whatever the motivation was, it was not worth it. It's had a really bad effect on those poor kittens and I hope the people that did that to them cry themselves to sleep at night.
Eastenders has that effect on me too :cry:
o rly??/