# Fire Bad! Carrots Good! Scientists to Create "Frankenbunny" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627 "2006-10-07T18:24:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/1 "2006-10-07T18:24:08Z")
As part of stem cell research. > [@](#): > > Scientists are planning to create a “frankenrabbit” by fusing together human cells with a rabbit egg. > > It is hoped the “chimeric” embryos, which would be 99.9 per cent human and 0.1 per cent rabbit, could lead to breakthroughs in stem cell research which could one day cure diseases such as Alzheimer’s or spinal cord injury. > > The embryos will allow scientists to perfect stem cell creation techniques without using human eggs. > > “If we learn how to do this with animal eggs, we should be able to have more success with human eggs, and I’d much rather know that if we were going to ask women to donate eggs that we were very likely to get stem cells as a result,” said Chris Shaw, at the Institute of Psychiatry. This just offers the possibility of _soooo_ many bad movie titles, like _Dawn of the Lepus_ (starring DeForrest Kelly’s zombi!), _Bride of Frankenbunny_, _Shawn of the Lepus_, and _Dracula vs. Frankenbunny_, to name but a few. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/2 "2006-10-07T18:30:33Z")
This will not end well. Didn’t any of these scientists see the last Wallace & Gromit movie? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/3 "2006-10-07T20:31:06Z")
_Night of the Lepus_, **Tuckerfan**! _Night_! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/4 "2006-10-07T23:09:18Z")
“Home . . . I haff no home. Hanted . . . despised . . . liffing like an animal – de jongle iss my home! But I vill show de world dat I can be its master. I shall perfect my own rice of rebbits – a rice of atomic superbonnies vhich vill _conquer de vorld!_” ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/5 "2006-10-07T23:09:45Z")
Why oh why did I read this and immediately think of ‘furries’? _shudder_ I’ve been on the interweb too long. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/6 "2006-10-07T23:20:46Z")
ObAnya: bunnies aren’t just cute like everybody supposes they got them hoppie legs and twicthy little noses and what’s with all the carrots? what do they need such good eyesight anyway? bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies! Brian (or maybe midgets) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/7 "2006-10-07T23:31:47Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] “Home . . . I haff no home. Hanted . . . despised . . . liffing like an animal – de jongle iss my home! But I vill show de world dat I can be its master. I shall perfect my own rice of rebbits – a rice of atomic superbonnies vhich vill _conquer de vorld!_” [/QUOTE] Uncanny. It is almost like Bela is here! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/8 "2006-10-08T01:21:29Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] Uncanny. It is almost like Bela is here! [/QUOTE] You should read me doing Patty Duke in _Valley of the Dolls_, it’s amazing! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/9 "2006-10-08T02:06:05Z")
I heard a scientist explaining this on the radio afew days ago. He said that anyone who thought there would be half man/half rabbit creatures simply didn’t understand the science. He said fortunately it will never happen because he, like everyone else, was terrified by the rabbit/man in _Donnie Darko_. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/10 "2006-10-08T02:56:34Z")
These’ll be no ordinary rabbits! They’ll be the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodents\* you ever set eyes on! These rabbits will have a vicious streak a mile wide! \*Actually lagomorphs, not rodents. Well, half-lagomorph, half-primate, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/11 "2006-10-08T07:16:34Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] _Night of the Lepus_, **Tuckerfan**! _Night_! [/QUOTE] Yes, I know, and given the subject matter of the thread (Frankenbunnies), and the late DeForrest Kelly starring in _Night_, I was riffing a sequel to it like the _Night of the Living Dead_. You know, _Dawn of the Dead_, followed by _Day of the Dead_, as well as riffing off of the various Frankenstein sequels. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/12 "2006-10-08T11:52:18Z")
The creature speaks … “What’s up, Doc?!” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/13 "2006-10-08T12:32:09Z")
[Frankenbunny!](http://studio3-d.com//drawings/frankenbunny.jpg) [Bride Of Frankenbunny!](http://studio3-d.com//drawings/bridebunny2.jpg) Fear the Bunny! ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/14 "2006-10-08T20:36:32Z")
I love it when science catches up with Mad Science. I’m still waiting for a flying car and a robot butler though. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/15 "2006-10-08T20:48:04Z")
[QUOTE=DocCathode] I love it when science catches up with Mad Science. I’m still waiting for a flying car and a robot butler though. [/QUOTE] [One robotic butler coming right up!](http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/20/white-box-robotics-914-pc-bot-on-the-loose/) > [@](#): > > The 21-inch tall 'bot sports a differential drive train with independent front suspension, two DC “stepper” motors, dual M2-ATX PSUs with automatic battery monitoring and auto-shutoff, head-mounted webcam, eight integrated IR sensors, an IO board rocking a myriad of control inputs, a VIA motherboard, 1GB of RAM, 40GB 2.5-inch SATA drive, DVD burner, WiFi, Windows XP Home, and most importantly, PC-BOT software (code name “Brian”) to get those wheels moving in the right direction. The company boldly claims its robotic companion can do “anything you want it to do” Still waiting for Kent Brockman to weigh-in on the frankenbunny matter, surprisingly. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/16 "2006-10-08T20:51:27Z")
It’s a great time to be alive! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/17 "2006-10-08T21:15:00Z")
[QUOTE=MEBuckner] These’ll be no ordinary rabbits! They’ll be the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodents\* you ever set eyes on! These rabbits will have a vicious streak a mile wide! [/QUOTE] “Look at the _bones_, man !” I propose a moratorium on Frankenbunny research until Holy Hand Grenade technology has a chance to catch up. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/18 "2006-10-09T03:02:53Z")
I thought [this](http://www.motelmag.com/uploaded_images/giantrabbit-756814.jpg) was Frankenrabbit. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-carrots-good-scientists-to-create-frankenbunny/375627/19 "2006-10-09T03:09:39Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] I thought [this](http://www.motelmag.com/uploaded_images/giantrabbit-756814.jpg) was Frankenrabbit. [/QUOTE] Run away! Run away! Run away!