# Grafting electric eel cells into humans

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grafting-electric-eel-cells-into-humans/466683>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 6, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grafting-electric-eel-cells-into-humans/466683 "2008-10-06T15:29:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grafting-electric-eel-cells-into-humans/466683/1 "2008-10-06T15:29:36Z")

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Subtitled: I sing the body electric.

[Obligatory link](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/06/pseudo_electrocyte_tech_proposal/)

Powering cell phones. Boring.

Losing weight. Meh.

I wanna know when I can do the Jedi lightning from the fingertips thing. 😃

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**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grafting-electric-eel-cells-into-humans/466683/2 "2008-10-07T03:57:35Z")

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Of course, when this hits the sex trade, someone is going to be pulling in the bucks.

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**Author:** ![Walpurgis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Walpurgis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walpurgis)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grafting-electric-eel-cells-into-humans/466683/3 "2008-10-07T07:44:01Z")

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Yay, finally some decent implants! Maybe they can get to work on intracranial ports soon.

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**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grafting-electric-eel-cells-into-humans/466683/4 "2008-10-07T07:52:43Z")

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Don’t have to turn on the light to go to the bathroom

Love, Phil

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grafting-electric-eel-cells-into-humans/466683/5 "2008-10-07T08:19:52Z")

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Resistance is futile

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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grafting-electric-eel-cells-into-humans/466683/6 "2008-10-07T15:34:12Z")

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Did these scientists work in the underwater city of Rapture?

I predict creepy little girls being followed around by guys in old dive suits soon to follow…