:eek: Read the linked article–
Grreeaaattt! Just what we need. Willard.
Creating a potential competitor species, one that can live in our cities and off our trash, without detection, is in fact a bad idea.
By definition.
I also think making a thread title that doesn’t actually describe the subject of the thread is a bad idea. Maybe not as bad as mutant big-brained mice, but still not a good idea.
Clearly these people never read about the rats of NIMH.
What’s the worst that could happen? They decide to run for Congress?
What I want to know is, when is it going to be available for humans? I know I want all my kids to have the “giant brain” gene.
Funny, but one of Dean Koontz’s short stories, before he wrote Watchers, was about intelligent-enhanced rats that escaped from a lab. The rats had an evil agenda, of course, it being Dean Koontz and all.
Well they obviously haven’t seen this movie..
Or to a lesser extent, this movie.
If the mice were no more intelligent than say, really smart dogs, then I don’t have a problem with it (rats, as opposed to mice, are as smart as most dogs already), but if they had the learning potential of humans, hmmm…I certainly would like a pet that could actually understand what I say. My cats just look at me when I try to carry on a conversation with them.
I like it. We could train them to go into the walls and kill all the cockroaches.
Fenris - now that sounds like a good idea!
Ah, Celyn, that was Ferrous, not Fenris.
That was Ferrous. Fenris is my superhero secret identity. (Kidding!:))
Keeping mice with the intelligence of humans as pets? That sounds like slavery to me.
Your kids may not have the “giant brain” gene in question, but most human kids do have some sort of “giant brain” gene, even if they don’t always act like it. 
Sorry, Fenris and Ferrous Put it down to advancing years!
There are some things that rodents won’t even do! 
My dog suffers from dyslexia and a Christ complex.
Oh, what could go wrong? They’re laboratory mice, their genes have been spliced…
Are you thinking what I’m thinking, Kantalooppi?
Following up on Kantalooppi’s observations, at best they’ll try to take over the world but always screw it up.
Determined rodents that they are, though, they’ll give it another shot the following night.
Maybe they’ll design little hovercraft and crack open people’s heads searching for the great question of life…