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  Aug 20 2009, 10:26 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 127 Joined: 22-October 08 Member No.: 16,542  |
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Top/ecomments/4735/
The controversial nature of the experiment aside, isn't this almost exactly a precursor to BTLs? One of the comments talks about the test rat forgetting to eat or drink and thus died of starvation. This could also be used in other forms of Pavlovian behavioral modification. Heaven help us if they ever invent aerosolized nanotech like this. You see a product advertisement, and blam they blast you with joyful feelings. |
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Aug 20 2009, 10:31 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 5-May 09 From: California Member No.: 17,140 |
Hm, is this actually real?
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Aug 20 2009, 10:45 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 6-March 07 From: Seattle, UCAS Member No.: 11,168 |
Wow....all that is missing is the organized crime connection and the pretty pictures.
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Aug 20 2009, 11:10 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 265 Joined: 17-August 09 From: Northern California Member No.: 17,510 |
Hmm... Assuming this is actually real, that's REALLY fucked up. Like SERIOUSLY...
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Aug 20 2009, 11:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 422 Joined: 14-August 08 Member No.: 16,237 |
i ignored it seeing as the website is called museum of hoaxes
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Aug 20 2009, 11:20 PM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
It's on a page called the frigging MUSEUM OF HOAXES people . .
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Aug 20 2009, 11:20 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 127 Joined: 22-October 08 Member No.: 16,542 |
http://mcrais.googlepages.com/thomas.htm Another related link.
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Aug 20 2009, 11:50 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 265 Joined: 17-August 09 From: Northern California Member No.: 17,510 |
*Head-Bang-On-Wall*
Damn, Stahl, I should have noticed that. Sad part is that among the guys I know, I'm usually the one who points these things out... |
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Aug 21 2009, 12:05 AM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
*snickers* leave it to the big dumb troll to be one of the first to notice something like that ^^
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Aug 21 2009, 03:14 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 127 Joined: 22-October 08 Member No.: 16,542 |
That wasn't the only place I found it however. And the museum of hoaxes guy is writing a book about bizarre unbelievable experiments which actually happened. This experiment being one of them.
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Aug 21 2009, 03:24 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 174 Joined: 21-May 06 Member No.: 8,583 |
So it's premature to put it on the main news page yet, right?
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Aug 21 2009, 03:28 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Minus attempting to use it to Pavlov-train someone into being heterosexual, the idea of direct electrical stimulation of the pleasure center has been used in science fiction before - specifically, Larry Niven's Known Space stories, where it was available as either a direct neural implant or a wireless device (tasp) that could be used from afar. Niven's adepts were known as "wireheads," and I think his best work on them was in The Ringworld Engineers, when a character describes literally living under the wire.
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Aug 21 2009, 03:31 AM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
the rat part at least is correct, tho the function of the area of the brain they stimulated was misunderstood:
http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/ one thing tho, this is more like the wireheads found in lary nivens writings then BTL (tho i guess it could be seen as a single emotion BTL cranked to 11). |
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